‘Flipped’ drop spindles on the front of a Split Bus (or link pin beam equipped Bay) allow you to drop the ride height approximately 3.5in and will narrow the track by 9mm per side.
As well as lowering the front of your Bus, the best thing about drop spindles is the ride quality will be the same as stock.
Indeed, over the years drop spindles have become a staple in lowering a Split Bus and paired with a narrowed beam, will allow you to go really low too if required.
This is a guide for those who are pretty handy and want to save a chunk of money by building their own drop spindles. If you can’t yet fathom out how to do an oil change though, it may be best to buy a set from one of the many suppliers out there. It also assumes you can work out how to remove and refit the spindles yourself, as well as construct some basic press tooling. In a nutshell then, it will show you how to modify a stock spindle into a drop spindle.
01 Plan job, remove and strip spindles
Before we dive into the job, you should read the whole feature and get together the tools you’ll need. Although it is possible to press in and ream your own kingpin bushes and ream the track rod reverse taper yourself, we chose to have a machine shop do the bushes, as, despite having the
