Steering and Suspension springs

Spring Removal

15 minute job at the most Just undo and remove shock bolts and press the rear arm down Out pops old spring in pops new one bolt shocky back up job done

Fit shock bolts loosely and finally torque up when weight of vehicle is back on wheels or suspension arm

19mm Shock bolts - 100 ft-lb torque

For standard springs, you will need to use spring compressor's in order to clear the bump stops to enable removal and refitting as the drive shaft limits the swing of the radius arm.

Spring Ratings - Colour Codes

Following info supplied by Billy739

Fronts:

2x Blue - Normal.

2x Brown - Carat, Camper, Ambulance.

2x Green - Strengthened, increased payload.

1x Yellow - 30mm lower.

2x Violet - Syncro.

Rear:

2x Yellow - Normal and for increased payload or heavy duty shock absorbers

2x Brown - Ambulance.

2x Blue - Passenger carrying vehicles, Kombi.

1x Green - 30mm lower.

2x Green - syncro.

Most vans have ' standard front springs ' blue coded but for some reason they can have 2 sorts of rears either blue or yellow as above. Although many parts have changed over the years there seems to be no specific pattern on the above types being fitted. Next time your under your van have a look to see which you have. Also the rear seems to take more load , even when accelerating the rear dips.