windsor van suspension

hi Pepper, went down this track with our last van, same set up
we found that the best way to do this is with air bags in the coils.
we had an engineer look at it as he was a friend of a friend and was next door at the time.
We had three options, lower the mounts of the arms, then longer springs.
just put longer springs and shockers.
or as said air bags. but stiffer/ harder ride.
We ended up lowering the mounting points and the spring mounts so the suspension was set at standard.
cheers Shane.

Hello,
We had a 1984 Statesman(made by Windsor) poptop tandem axle with that suspension setup, personally I did not like it at all. For example there was very little downward travel in the suspension and basically one wheel took all the weight going over kerbs etc whilst the other was in the air.
We have a 1998 Windsor Dynasty poptop tandem now with regular leaf springs beam axle setup and it is in my opinion much better.
The suspension setup you refer to also had a reputation of uneven tyre wear, I didnt keep the van long enough to varify or refute this rumour.
Regards Alan.

H Pepper2. For what it is worth i pulled the independent suspension out of my 1986 Windsor pop top, single wheel, 14.5' van and fitted slipper springs and an axle. No more tyre scrubbing and better all round for reliability. If I was to approach the same issue today I'd probably look at air bags though. Cheers