WANTED Pair of drop spindles

Hi if you happen to have some lying about or if you are just about to return your bus to stock I'd be very much interested in taking them off your hands. My van is of '76 vintage. Cheers

 

Bump

 

One last cheeky bump

 

I think someone on here has some, hold on I'll see if I can find them.

 

I think it may be @MorkC68 not sure though?
Someone with an orange bus?

 

you`ll be doing alot of this ..

 

Agreed, it looks cool but makes the bus horrible to drive.

 

Hang on I was told that drop spindles were the only way to actually preserve the ride? Dropping the beam on adjusters was I thought the rubbish way? Confused!

 

Is there any way to lower a bay and keep a decent ride? I don't mind if it isn't as good as stock

 

check out red 9 kits superb

 

That's the advertising blurb/old wives tale. To see what it would be like, jam a piece of 4" thick stuff under the wheelarch and see how much room there is left for suspension travel. None. So you need smaller tyres and to stiffen up the suspension at which point you haven't preserved the original suspension.

Great on smooth roads, rubbish everywhere else.

 

red9 design front wishbone suspenion not cheap but a great ride
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Thanks guys. So Red 9 seem to do 2 kits. The first is the double wishbone complete front beam replacement set up with rack and pinion (big money) and the second is the ez rider kit which is much cheaper. Is the cheaper kit any good and will it give me what I need on a standard beam?

 

Think the coil overs kit is about £450 plus post. I think someone on here was saying something about them a few days ago?

 

Yes read that too. Something about them rubbing but I think that was on the rear and the driveshafts bottoming out or a cracked gearbox case or something? Don't think it was related to the front?

 

Has anyone ever fitted universal coil overs? I saw some in a Demon tweaks catalogue for about £100 each various lengths sizes etc, what do you do about the leaf springs?