L bug handeling.

Buger Gary · 2003-02-12T13:26:35+00:00

Ok all you experts out there.I use to own a 71 Super bug. I lowered it 1.5 inches all round and fitted KYB shocks and strut inserts.I also fitted urathane bushes in the front and widened the wheels to 5.5 inch with 195 tyres.I also got a four wheel alignment and It handeled like it was on rails and always felt safe in all conditions.It even handeled the wind ok.Now I did a silly thing and sold it so I could do up a 74 L bug.I now have the body spot on and the drive train sorted,But i'm having a real problem with the handeling.I have done all the things that I did to the 71,and apart from a few differences they are the same.The problems I am having is when cornering it seems to want to dag out all the time and in the wet it is like driving on marbles. As soon as you turn off a streight line it gets very light.I have already spun it out one frosty morning going home after night shift( boy that woke me up)luckily I was just going arround an intersection and it spun in the middle of the road and stayed on the tar. The suspension in the rear seems softer than the 71 and it took a lot to get the hight rite.I don't know if it's boddyroll that is causing it or not.I don't know a lot about suspension setting up,and I was probabily lucky first time out with the 71.The only thing i have done different to the 74 is make and fit a strut brase to the front.Any help would be great as I have ran out of money and I don't want to blow funds on things that work. Gary

Back again. This suspension thing takes a bit to get your head arround! All the diferent terms make it a bit confusing.When I say it's lose in the back I'm trying to say it feels like the body is swaying,I don't think it's losing traction.I am asuming the rolling body throughs it off line,Thats why I thought a sway bar would stableise it.Since I have removed the strut brace I have done a few k's and it's almost as good as my old S Bug.Thanks for all your input so far I just hope I am not frustrating you's too much as I'm only a back yarder not a race driver,But keep chucking it at me and eventualy somthing will sink in.
Gary