Setting up dual controls

bluebaja Officially Full-On Dubber

233 posts · joined Oct 2003 · 4 Jul 2006, 10:31 pm

#507982

Anyone set up dual controls in a beetle. Idea is for teaching kids to drive.
Its been done before by driving schools.
I'm wondering if they used a left hand drive steering box or wether the boxes are the same but with different steering arm (cant just flip it due to hole taper for tie rod bolts)
Anyone here done it? Anyone have a left hand drive steering box?
Any info appreciated.

subibaja Wolfsburg Wizard

501 posts · joined Sep 2005 · 4 Jul 2006, 10:49 pm

#507995

i have heard of a bloke putting two steering boxs on his beam in his baja.

to use a short steering arm on both sides and just connected the two pittman arms with a custom made one from either side .

he did it so he didnt bend a long one ( said it was stronger that way )
suppose you could do it like that

so you would have
1. short standard drivers one
2. pitman arm (connected
to your steering box)
3. custom made one
(modified pasengers one)
4.pitman arm (connected to
another steering box , set up in the left hand drive position)
5. standard drivers one on the
left .

now i dont know if that made sense or not cause i,m tied

then you can fit your steering wheel just as a left hand drive one would be fitted.

dont know about peddels thou(a good hand brake i suppose )
IF IT WERE ME I,D JUST SEND THEM TO A DRIVING SCHOOL NOT ENOUGH ROOM IN A BEETLE FOR 2 STEERING WHEELS (SORRY FOR THE CAPITAL ENDING I TOLD YOU I WAS TIED HEHEHEHE)

terry

anyone who says it's bad to put subaru motors in vw's.....
hasnt got a clue about smoooooooooth

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subibaja Wolfsburg Wizard

501 posts · joined Sep 2005 · 4 Jul 2006, 10:51 pm

#507997

ohh the steering boxs are the same its just the pitman arm that is different
terry

anyone who says it's bad to put subaru motors in vw's.....
hasnt got a clue about smoooooooooth

terry
brisbane
0403252522
you know who i am

sinecure Want another... :(

1,031 posts · joined Mar 2006 · 5 Jul 2006, 9:29 am

#508078

That's an incredibly dangerous, and mostly illegal, mod for a daily driver. You will never legally be allowed to do it without an instructors licence, a mod plate from one of the few places that does this conversion, and special rego and insurance.

Send them to a driving school. Let them wreck someone elses car!

A POSSE AD ESSE.

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bluebaja Officially Full-On Dubber

233 posts · joined Oct 2003 · 5 Jul 2006, 12:34 pm

#508115

Thanks for the concern but its for an offroad car I.e no rego. Hardly what would be concidered dangerous :P

bond Veteran Volks Folk

2,456 posts · joined Jul 2003 · 5 Jul 2006, 6:34 pm

#508213

i learnt to drive in a 74l bug with dual controls... her name was navinka and she was a german woman
if my arms were too tense on the wheel she would knock me one on the elbows lol... funny times...

there is no emoticon for what i am feeling...

nick

sinecure Want another... :(

1,031 posts · joined Mar 2006 · 5 Jul 2006, 7:49 pm

#508247

bluebaja wrote:Thanks for the concern but its for an offroad car I.e no rego. Hardly what would be concidered dangerous :P

Fairy nuff!

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