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Old 01-28-2014, 03:08 AM
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Officially if you want to wear shoes like that you need to be selling flying carpets or kebabs so I don't think you need to worry about them.

I've always wondered how Mercedes sorted out the higher ride height on the vehicles fitted with the higher suspension for countries with poor road surfaces (what ever the term was they used in the FSM). The front (like you suggest) can be adjusted quite a bit but the back is limited by the arc of travel of the trailing arms...

...may be they shimmed the height of the subframe? But they can't drop the height of the differential too far down from the horizontal because you then end up with vibration trouble from the single UJ propshaft set up - but saying that I've seen propshaft set ups with two UJs for the W123 pictured in EPC...
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