Rear shocks

[gagvanman]

Anyone fitted coil over shocks to the rear of their bus? If so, are they any better than the normal type?

 

[ozziedog]

There’s no real reason for fitting coilovers on the rear because it’s so easy to increase your spring rate by going up a notch unless you really wanted to harden your springing up. If you were doing it for lowering then they’d need to be proper tough springs because of all of the weight in the rear and you’d still end up notching your chassis anyway. I have seen a raised bay with twin coilovers shocks on each side fitted to custom mounting points. Couldn’t quite get to the bottom of the reasoning behind this but got to admit it really looked the mutts. I’d imagine if you had some custom made they’d be talking about the weight of it and what the springs would actually do in the real world but I can’t imagine for our purposes any real benefits apart from looking great. Maybe someone else has a different angle on it and I might very well be wrong (again) :mrgreen:

Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,,,,,would look absolutely ace on a raised van HHhhhmmmmmm :mrgreen:

 

[K@rlos]

Just get some decent quality regular shocks. The bilstiens T2D sell are amazing