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Pauld Officially Full-On Dubber

204 posts · joined Sep 2008 ·

#764087
Hi everyone, just a quick one, I put my bug into a kerb about a year and a half ago and after having replaced the front beam I thought everything was sweet untill the left hand wheel bearing went for the second time inside two years so I went looking for the problem and found that my spring plate is twisted, now how do i go about replacing the plate itself and do I need any specific tooling and how do i set the height after replacing it with a different arm?

ian.mezz I never said, I could write or spell

3,913 posts · joined Sep 2004 ·

#764109
Pauld wrote:Hi everyone, just a quick one, I put my bug into a kerb about a year and a half ago and after having replaced the front beam I thought everything was sweet untill the left hand wheel bearing went for the second time inside two years so I went looking for the problem and found that my spring plate is twisted, now how do i go about replacing the plate itself and do I need any specific tooling and how do i set the height after replacing it with a different arm?
a car jack
car stands.
assorted spanners
4 longer bolts to pull spring plate back into place.
a paint pen to mark where old one come out, so yo put the new one back in the same place.
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Pauld Officially Full-On Dubber

204 posts · joined Sep 2008 ·

#764115
is there anything i have to look out for when I pull the plate out? the only thing im worried about is when i take the plate off if its going to jump out anywhere and mess up my ride height or anything silly

ian.mezz I never said, I could write or spell

3,913 posts · joined Sep 2004 ·

#764143
Pauld wrote:is there anything i have to look out for when I pull the plate out? the only thing im worried about is when i take the plate off if its going to jump out anywhere and mess up my ride height or anything silly
a paint pen to mark where old one come out, so yo put the new one back in the same place.
😂🤪😂🤪😂
car forums. where a lot of peoples good intentions end up taking a good old car off the road forever never ever to see the road again. 🥲

vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#764148
two years so I went looking for the problem and found that my spring plate is twisted,
OK u said the front beam then yr talking about the rear spring plate

So is it the front of the rear thats been bent
I read it on FACEBOOK so it must be true


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Pauld Officially Full-On Dubber

204 posts · joined Sep 2008 ·

#764172
i just finished changing the rear spring plate, i only mentioned the front as i had changed it at the time of the accident and only mentioned it as a guide of how hard an impact there was, apart from the father in law being hit on the thumb when the plate dropped down but its all in and i will have it finished tomorrow after i do the wheel bearing