Rear Spring size

[helen]

I know this sounds like a daft question - but does anyone know the length of a standard rear heavy duty spring compared to a Syncro spring please?
The reason behind this being I have a new spring here - which I would like to offer out to anyone who is thinking of buying a pair and could save themselves a load of money on one of them, but not sure which it is.
I originally bought it as a heavy duty one from Just Kampers for about £80 odd, then when we went to fit them, they were different lengths. Garage ended up getting another from another source (as JK o/s) and now I have a surplus one - but not entirely convinced which it is!!
I don't want to put it on offer with the wrong description
Cheers for any help you can give
H

[R0B]

it should have a blob/blobs of paint on it.what colour is it/are they?

[helen]

Hmm - I will look tonight when I get home
Cheers
H

[Simon Baxter]

You should always buy and fit springs in axle pairs.
There are a lot of variants of the rear spring, as noted they are colour coded from the factory but not all aftermarket suppliers use the same codes, if any.

[helen]

You should always buy and fit springs in axle pairs.
There are a lot of variants of the rear spring, as noted they are colour coded from the factory but not all aftermarket suppliers use the same codes, if any.

Now there's a story! I bought a pair from Just Kampers - they were fitted by local garage who reversed it out of garage and noticed van tilting - they took both off again, and one was longeer than the other!! They thought one was heavy duty and one maybe a syncro spring. Then re-ordered another heavy duty and got a matching pair to refit. However its been so long now, I can't remember what the one I have left is - I think it's a syncro but want to be sure.

Cheers
H

[helen]

it should have a blob/blobs of paint on it.what colour is it/are they?

Hi Rob
I had a good look at the spring today - well sort of - as its tucked away in back of shed - but couldn't see any paint blobs. Can you tell by the length of it - also I think there are some numbers printed on it but they are not very clear. I'll try and work out what they are, but any more advice will be appreciated
Cheers

[Aidan]

the numbers will do as they correspond to the paint code, syncro is 2 green, but I can't remember the numbers, have one in stores I can check later in the week