Here`s the adjusters I made.
They are basically 5mm steel plate based on the swayaway idea. I cut a slot from the bottom grubscrew to the next dimple 90degrees around from the grubscrew hole.
If I had more resources I would make the centre piece out of solid ally like swayaways and fit longer grubscrews.
It works though and I`ve done about 15,000K`s on them with no problems.
Cheers
Graham.
57 that’s great for a home job, are you going to notch the spring plates?? or remove the rear bump stop?? do you have any probs with bump steer? I have found with mine , the ride is great but still looks a little high in the front see picture he rear sits fine for me see picture, I’m looking at dropped spindles with a bit of a tub job to get the front wheels just sitting under the front guard and i'm going with bigger diameter tiers ATM i have 50 series I want to run 60's on the front. i don't want the front to be on the ground but want the illusion of it being low with the tiers under the guard
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wacked 1
this is how high it used to sit
front as it sits now
rear height minus the motor
[Edited on 8-12-2004 by wacked1]
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don't worry it's a VW thing
I think notching the spring plates might compromise thier strength so I`ll grind off the stops.
I did have the idea of cutting and turning the whole end of the torsion bar tubes to gain some clearance. Big job though and a bitch to get in there to weld it back on!
Plans for your bus sound cool, I want mine lower but then you get into the whole tubbing business, don`t really fancy sitting in the middle with the steering wheel and pedals over to my right!
Cheers
Graham.
I can't get over how hight it looked before the drop, go lower. Shell look sweet as then.
You talking about mine or Wacked1`s Bus?? They both looked bloody rediculous anyway. Mine looked even worse in that first photo because I had just fitted the low profile tyres.
Graham.
hey 57 i don't know much about metal strenght but i do know kimm at indian was selling notched spring plates and so did mike at cbb, so i guess they could work but grinding the bumpstops off is the easier of the two
cheers
wacked1
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yeah my kombi is fairly low bugger paying 800 bucks!, i just let the air out of my tires! and put about 20 bags of cement in the back!
Hey wacked1, how many splines is yours dow at the back??
Dropped mine 2, would like to go to the magical 3!!
from memory it's 2 splines but memory isn't all that good, but i have a v8 in the back of mine weighing it down a bit, i'm running 16 inch rims which give the illusion of it being lower in the rear.
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