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<blockquote data-quote="Moseley" data-source="post: 596269" data-attributes="member: 20098"><p>Slightly misunderstood I'm afraid - when fitting dropped spindles, all you are doing is altering where the wheel mounts to the suspension moving parts. Ultimately, if you have two vans lowered to the same height, one with dropped spindles and one with standard, the only difference is that one van will have suspension arms at a tight angle and risks bottoming out the ball joints, the other has the arms at a much more level position and will have more suspension travel before the ball joints are on their limits. Everything else remains the same; geometry, track rods, beam height.</p><p></p><p>Obviously if the ball joints have lots of travel remaining, then the suspension is free to move until the next pinch point, and in most cases this is the wheel hitting the arch. At this point, you can either fit stiffer springs (I.e. Coilovers) to minimise the chance of hitting arches by stiffening up the suspension, or tub the arches to make use of the additional suspension travel!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Moseley, post: 596269, member: 20098"] Slightly misunderstood I'm afraid - when fitting dropped spindles, all you are doing is altering where the wheel mounts to the suspension moving parts. Ultimately, if you have two vans lowered to the same height, one with dropped spindles and one with standard, the only difference is that one van will have suspension arms at a tight angle and risks bottoming out the ball joints, the other has the arms at a much more level position and will have more suspension travel before the ball joints are on their limits. Everything else remains the same; geometry, track rods, beam height. Obviously if the ball joints have lots of travel remaining, then the suspension is free to move until the next pinch point, and in most cases this is the wheel hitting the arch. At this point, you can either fit stiffer springs (I.e. Coilovers) to minimise the chance of hitting arches by stiffening up the suspension, or tub the arches to make use of the additional suspension travel! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]
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