Raise Ride Height, or not?

[ginkster]

I’m considering raising the ride height of my camper while it is in having its service tomorrow, but wondered what the views/experience of the Collective would be first?

Current setup is Koni/H&R coilovers and ARBs (fitted by CRS a couple of years ago) with wheel centre to arch measurement of approx 380mm all round running on 18” wheels. I’m trying to get a slightly more compliant ride, a bit more ground clearance and to even up the gap around the wheel. Raising by 25-30mm (to approximately 410mm centre-centre) would sort clearance and even the gap but what about the ride? Should I be aiming for equal measurements front and back or slightly larger centre-centre at the rear?

Also, any thoughts on adjusting the damping to account for the slightly higher ride height?

Pic of current setup:



Ta.

 

[Kind of Blue]

I have used KONI Adjustable dampers an quite few vehicles over even more years. I always adjusted the damping to find what best suited the vehicle the way it was driven over all sort of road conditions an off road for those vehicles that where Off Road Types. I never settles on the very softest setting and usually accepted a 360Deg turn or two half turns. The front McPherson Struts are always the easiest to adjust and on one car I had McPherson's front and rear, perfect for experimentation. The rears as in the T6 require detachment. i have not fitted them to our T6 as yet but usually with a bit of practice one can just release one end collapse the damper to locate the internal adjustment screw and turn 180Deg ata time for testing. A bit of a pain but one gets quite fast at it. I am getting a little too long in the tooth these days to be squawking around in the mud but it is worth it to find the most satisfactory setting. I never reached the extremely hard maxim partially because it need quite some pushing and pulling to even collapse or extend the at near max damping rate. The other reason is that one soon learns hat is best because too hard and the suspension becomes skittish on damp slippery roads when driving quickly so one half turn less usually restores maximum grip and handling. I believe that all of my vehicles require two half turns , or 360 deg for best results for all weathers and road conditions.

Longer correctly weighted springs are bound to offer benefits as also would smaller rims with deeper fatter tyres.

 

[Sasquatch]

Raise it up! Swamper that baby!

 

[ginkster]

I have used KONI Adjustable dampers an quite few vehicles over even more years. I always adjusted the damping to find what best suited the vehicle the way it was driven over all sort of road conditions an off road for those vehicles that where Off Road Types. I never settles on the very softest setting and usually accepted a 360Deg turn or two half turns. The front McPherson Struts are always the easiest to adjust and on one car I had McPherson's front and rear, perfect for experimentation. The rears as in the T6 require detachment. i have not fitted them to our T6 as yet but usually with a bit of practice one can just release one end collapse the damper to locate the internal adjustment screw and turn 180Deg ata time for testing. A bit of a pain but one gets quite fast at it. I am getting a little too long in the tooth these days to be squawking around in the mud but it is worth it to find the most satisfactory setting. I never reached the extremely hard maxim partially because it need quite some pushing and pulling to even collapse or extend the at near max damping rate. The other reason is that one soon learns hat is best because too hard and the suspension becomes skittish on damp slippery roads when driving quickly so one half turn less usually restores maximum grip and handling. I believe that all of my vehicles require two half turns , or 360 deg for best results for all weathers and road conditions.

Longer correctly weighted springs are bound to offer benefits as also would smaller rims with deeper fatter tyres.

Thanks. Pretty certain that the damping is one turn from soft at the moment and will probably keep it that way given the rear is awkward to change. I’m certainly not going to attempt it on the drive!

 

[ginkster]

Raise it up! Swamper that baby!

Tempting! Not happening in the near term though as not forking out for new wheels, tyres and suspension again!! Next van maybe.