Wider track? front and rear?

Was told i could widen the front track of my 67 bug by using 68 spindles? true? also how about the rear?

Any help!

No not true, 67 is link pin, 68 is ball joint so the spindles won't swap but even if they did it wouldnt widen the track.

Swapping to 12 volt long axles will widen the rear about an jnch per side but a lot of work for not much gain.

Cheers Joel.

The easiest way to widen your track is to fit wider wheels and tyres front and back.

These Porsche 356-style chrome wide-five wheels are 5.5 x 15 and bolt straight on. They take 185R15 tyres without rubbing on the guards. They also take the stock VW hubcaps for the classic resto-custom look. Good VW shops like Micks and VVDS stock them, or they're easily available online.

Joel, VW started putting ball joint beams in Bugs in 1966. True it won't widen the track any but '67 was NOT a link pin beam.

In Australia we only king & links until 1968 and 6 volt as well

thebugnut wrote:Joel, VW started putting ball joint beams in Bugs in 1966. True it won't widen the track any but '67 was NOT a link pin beam.

As Steve said above it was in Australia, we didnt get balljoint till fatchicks started in 68.

Our 60-67 beetles here were virtually unchanged, just a few minor things like bigger 1300 engine for 66 and 67.

thebugnut wrote:Joel, VW started putting ball joint beams in Bugs in 1966. True it won't widen the track any but '67 was NOT a link pin beam.

As Steve and Joel have said, Aussie '67s WERE link pin. Your US Beetles were built in Germany, but ours were not. They were built in Melbourne, with up to 95% Australian content. We didn't get most of the German improvements from '65 to '68. A bit like other unique Beetle models from South Africa or Brazil.

The differemces between Euro/US Beetles, and their Aussie equivalents, is documented here:

http://www.clubvw.org.au/austvw001