Shortened shock absorbers for a Vw T25?

100mm is a lot, I think my brown van is about 80mm on the front. It was undriveably bad with stock shocks, I put a set of these on:

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4-LOWERING-SHOCK-ABSORBERS-T2-T3-TRANSPORTER-BUS-T25-GAS-SILVER-LINE/131289495414?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D43772%26meid%3De8584ab4ae7146f9b020cac1a3e8d360%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D131289499312

Bought them from CMC at a show for about the same money. They work well enough but don't seem fantastic quality.
That said, The ride is loads better now, but the limit is the upper wishbones on the seat tubs now rather than the bump stops really.

Oh it'll drive absolutely awful mate, T25s just don't have the suspension travel in them to go anywhere near low.
The "been there done that" part of me wants to tell you not to bother, but loads of people told me that too and I ignored them!

Those dampers are short enough that they don't bottom out even with the top suspension arm belting hard into the seat tubs - You don't need them any shorter because the suspension can't actually move any more than that.

Theres plenty of travel in the stock rear dampers, you don't need shorter ones - when we bagged my mates panel van we kept the stock rear shocks/mounts.



This is on stock rear shocks with airbags. IIRC the internal bumpstop on the bags was limiting the height of this, equivalent to having springs 2" long.