After a great discussion on the general forum, I’ve decided to take my 72 back to stock height. It is currently fitted with T2D flipped spindles, gaz coilovers and adjustable spring plates at the rear. These were all fitted by the p.o. I’m guessing I will need new arms, shocks, spindles and rear spring plates? Cheers Jon
Indeed, but you're lucky - it's a nuts and bolt job - you still have your front bump stop mounts and all that lowering gear to sell. You'll need a pair of rear bump stops as they will have been cut down, they press on - no tools. You could keep the adjustable spring plates but it's a bit pointless when you'd have to take them off and turn them on the splines anyway and will profit £ from the swap and have a full lowering kit to sell. IIRC the donuts are different too so add a set of those. Your front shocks will be the correct length but could have beefed up to stop rubbing, rears will need replacing as they'll be too short. I kept all the original parts when I lowered it this way so I just got the box out and swapped it all back in a day.
Thanks Zedders, the gaz coilovers were expensive so if I can reuse them great, may need to reduce the spring tension. Rear shocks are kyb has a just a and are new but are a fairly hard ride. I know the spindles are probably one year only but will the arms be the same? Rears are probably late?
Just the spindles may be one year only, it's a brake thing. VW changed the disc thickness after a year though 40 years later I'd check what you have. The arms are all the same. The spring plates changed at some point to have a different number of splines but I don't know when that was. This is something that cannot be changed so you can go by the chassis number if you can find the info. Google might be your friend. Or you could remove a spring plate cover and count the splines (which sends me bozz-eyed - I'd take a picture so I could mark every tenth!). You may be able to solve that one simply by looking at adverts for adjustable spring plates which should make the cut off point clear? The rear shocks - it's possible they weren't changed for shorter so they might be ok, but I doubt it - worth checking.
