jurgen caravans
Submitted: Sunday, Mar 08, 2020 at 09:35
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Mollyduka
Hi all looking at buying a 2012 Jurgen 20 ft van with AL KO IRS
suspension . Has anyone had any problems with this set up and can they be upgraded . cheers
Reply By: RMD - Sunday, Mar 08, 2020 at 15:01
Sunday, Mar 08, 2020 at 15:01
Mollyduka
If the van has done a fair bit of work then the rubber
suspension will have sagged to a certain extent. Only replacement of the units would restore to OE. I would not buy a van with rubber
suspension. Maybe in Europe if I lived there with smooth roads. However, if used anywhere other than smooth roads I would not consider buying a van with that type of
suspension. Perhaps Alko have better units than those for sale now. The style of frame underneath sort of prevents fitting a decent
suspension system.
Edit. I notice IRS is mentioned. Independent Rear
Suspension. Independant maybe, but not IRS unless only on the rear axle set. Possibly IRS is being used for description of Independant Rubber
Suspension. A bit confusing in motoring terms.
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Follow Up By: Nomadic Navara - Tuesday, Mar 10, 2020 at 23:34
Tuesday, Mar 10, 2020 at 23:34
The best off-road vans produced Oz, Pheonix, built by Barry Davidson, used that
suspension. They survived extremely
well. There is nothing much better produced even today.
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Reply By: Member - abqaiq - Tuesday, Mar 10, 2020 at 11:42
Tuesday, Mar 10, 2020 at 11:42
Alignment of independent suspensions (without full cross axle and maybe even with ) is a specialist job. Usually not doable by a typical alignment place as they are setup for a four wheel single frame job (car type system) . I found that truck alignment
places have the correct machine to do trailer alignments. Just saying....
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Reply By: Gbc.. - Tuesday, Mar 10, 2020 at 13:45
Tuesday, Mar 10, 2020 at 13:45
Any Jurgens which were imported AND meant for offroad had the Alko rubber
suspension cut off and had cruisemaster coil trailing arm
suspension installed.
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