[Vwdiesel] Rear shocks 91 ECO Jetta

[James Hansen]

For sure it's a spring issue Bryan.
If you plan on permanently altering the weight of the vehicle, ideally 
you need to change the rate of the springs, so that they support more 
weight per inch of travel.  That can be acomplished two ways. shorten 
the existing spring, so you have less coils exposed to the travel, or 
just change the spring, but htat's tough with passenger car springs, as 
you need to determine a lot of things if you want the first try to work. 
  Going to a new stock spring won't address ride height THAT much, 
because you are carrying more weight that the stock setup permanently, 
unless you install a spring spacer to raise the ride height back to what 
it was.

I would try the ten dollar fix of a spring rubber. It isolates a portion 
of the coils, so that you reduce the number of turns, which increases 
the effective spring rate.  You would install that at the bottom, not 
mid spring.

-james

Bryan Belman wrote:
> I would say this is a spring issue, not shocks, or a
> little of both, no?
> 
> regualar shocks do not hold the car up, they only stop
> it from flopping around.
> 
> I think you need new springs as these A2 jetta's
> commonly sag after years.  With 20 gallons of WVO, for
> sure going to sag.
> 
> Agree?
> 
> Bryan
> 
> --- Will Taygan <william at taygan.com> wrote:
> 
>> oops, I sent this just to mikitka the first time,
>> I'll try again:
>>
>> Oh, my 91 ECO backend is TERRIBLE!  Especially with
>> 20 gallons of veg in
>> the trunk.  Anyone try/suggest stiffer springs? 
>> Anything else to change
>> out back there?  Would new shocks make a world of
>> difference?
>>
>> My buddy's 92 ECO is just as bad, aargh!
>>
>> Will
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 21:12 -0400, mikitka wrote:
>>> Is it really worth the extra cost to get the
>> bilstein shocks or would just
>>> regular Gabriel's work?  Also I have not done it
>> and can't remember but is
>>> it a major task to change the rear shocks out like
>> it is to change out the
>>> front struts? I think mine are shot and the back
>> sags pretty good now that I
>>> got new front struts.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
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> Bryan Belman, Pt Pleasant, NJ
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