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[oneday!]

ive been thinking about buying some coil overs for the front of my bus as the ones on there are og and are knackered
it has a cut&turn beam and is down about 3-4inch but i was speaking to somebody about this and they have advised me not to
as this will counter act with the torsion they have advised me to get a gas shortend shock instead and this would be a better set up
is this correct

cheers

 

[uber cool]

My old bus had a cut n turn beam, dropped 6", I fitted coil overs to relift it back to a 4" drop. Never had a problem, did more than 10k miles like this

 

[skin69]

My bay is exactly the same and I've been running coil-overs about a year (5000 miles) and it drives a dream. Just don't go mad would be my advice but a couple inches or so is cool. don't forget vehicles do sag with time as the springs weaken anyway.. :roll:

 

[oneday!]

ok guys thanks for the info maybe i will stick with the coil overs but dont want to raise my bus at all would it raise it up if i put coil overs on it?

 

[uber cool]

The beauty of coil overs if you can set the height to whatever you want. Just make sure your beam is good condition and top shock mount point is not rotten.

Your right re the sagging leaf springs, I fitted a 2 - 4 1/2" drop Red 9 kit. once fitted on the top setting which should be 2" lower it was actually higher than before. I put this down to finding several broken leaf springs on the beam and 40 years of sag!