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anyone ever lowered a van by heating the springs with a gas axe? i know a few people who have done it with cars, just wondered if it would work on a van

Whatever about just hacking springs off ...semi-melting them down is just sheer stupidity

Behave yourself, these things are 2 Tonne commercial vehicles not Barryboy Corsas.....


Regards


Fritz,,,,,,,,,

ps,Alternative rear springs have been known to be used off Vauxhall cavalier saloons to get a nice low stance of about -60mm

Sounds a well dumbass idea to me! how would you do it evenly? the springiness would be fooked as the tempering of the steel would be altered, jeez, there are some teewats out there!

You may as well let the tyres down while your at it

Spring cutting are for pikeys and Nova boys.

On top of that if you have an accident and the rozzers take a close look, you may be booked for having a defective vehicle, as well as invalidating your insurance, as no insurance wants a pikey on there books.


Play safe and buy some,

buy some lowering springs ya tight ar*e...

i guess it's not the favoured option then!!! springs are quite far down a long list of stuff to buy, oh well,hang on did someone mention something about cavalier springs

wasserleaker wrote:Sounds a well dumbass idea to me! how would you do it evenly? the springiness would be fooked as the tempering of the steel would be altered, jeez, there are some teewats out there!

you block or jack it to the right hight, the steel is fine al long as you quench it in oil as it's cooling down, someone did say something about 2 ton commercial vehicle that is prob talking sense!!!!!!!!!

It cant really be done unless you have access to a furnace as std springs are not progressive so you would have to heat the whole thing up evenly THEN press it down to the height you want. Not gonna ramble on but it would end up being pants.

If you had progressive springs then you could at a push heat one area but your then creating a weak point in the spring as it would always flex from your heated area first and eventually work harden that part of the spring to failure.

Coiled bits of metal they are but there is a lot behind spring manufacture..