Aircooled VW South Africa

Thats awesome nice work,,,,,i just love those wheels,,,,

Almost there, looking forward to seeing it on the road, cool sunvisor

regardin your spring plates , i put a spacer between my spring plates, i will post a pic with what i mean,








hope these pics help !!!BAB

Bad Ass Bob wrote:regardin your spring plates , i put a spacer between my spring plates, i will post a pic with what i mean,


hope these pics help !!!BAB

It was a very tight squeeze to get them in and the holes to align with the axles, but saying that its the first time that I have ever removed the spring plates and axles off of a car.
I have notched spring plates with the "spacer" welded in. With the spring plate in the original position it should give me a 3.5" drop at the back without using splines of the torsion bars, difficult to see from these pics:

Got the rear wheels on yesterday and lowered it with one outer spline
Have to sort out the electrics, seats and finish off the interior panels,

Well done man, looks good, almost there

Splitz, glad you came right with the hub nuts. Did you eventually grind the right rear off???

Looks great Ready for the show circuit or sunday afternoon cruize to the roadhouse for a milkshake

How nice is that ! Looking good Donovan, hope you have some $$ left Dennis deserves a huge gift under the tree this year, glad to see all the hardwork is paying off

holy crap, that looks awesome. just move the rack to the back. great going don!

Almost ready, had to redo the wiring and now trying to sort out the braking issues

Also cant find the right length shocks for the rear,
Open: 330mm
Closed:230mm
Stroke:100mm

Yes HR my dad showed that nut the grinder, but it did put up a fight. Always funny seeing my dad struggle with something on the bus and end up saying: " F%^*@g german piece of sh^&

Somedays I think my dad gets a bigger kick out of these busses than I do

Right so I guess this project can be closed now.

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Yes Splitz! You can't drive past my house without being seen.

No, I think its still far from done.
Still some wiring issues, the engine cut out twice
And I definitely need a new steering box, the play on that thing is unbelievable
Just waiting for the master cylinder from Calooker, I dont have much braking either

From the front the people point and smile
From the rear the people gave me the finger

Wheel alignment question:

How do I straighten up the rear wheels ?
At the moment the drivers side rear is very skew, the passenger side is ok
The wheel cant go back anymore on the springplates so I'm stuck with something like this:

Stunning looking bus! I love all the extras and those wheels are the dogs bollucks!