I've been putting this job off on a restoration project as all I've read was confusing the life out of me 😂..... Nice one for uploading my man, I'm away to tackle it this afternoon 😎🤙🏻
I have bought 2 lowered swing axle beetles and brought both back to stock height. I wish I would have seen this video first. Both times I got it wrong and had to do it twice! Thanks! This will help me in the future.
A friend of mine is a VW mechanic in Mexico and works exclusively on Beetles. He told me that stock height is for the bottom edge of the spring plate to touch the top of the bolt hole. That places the ride height half a bolt lower than what you show.
no such thing as a stupid question. The swing axle covers half a bolt hole in its relaxed state. You then need a bit of force to lift it up a bit and push it into the car. This then leaves the hole available to put a bolt in.
@@robertsupriano1969 If you cannot get your swing arm to sit exactly covering half of the bolt hole then you will need to sdjust the torsion bar an inner spline or two. Hope that makes sense, let me know if not.
How do we know where the inner splines need to be for stock height or does it not matter? Is the key just the outside splines and when installing the swing axle as you explained. Thanks in advanced, great video! 👍
Hi, if you cannot get the spring plate to show exactly half of that bottom thread then the inner spline is inncorrect. Adjust the inner spline by one and see if the spring axle will show exactly half. You need to show half of that thread for stock height. Good luck.
Wouldnt do it any harm, would need to be careful af any cross contamination with different greases. As you can see I didnt put any on mine but now Im thinking I should have.
I've been putting this job off on a restoration project as all I've read was confusing the life out of me 😂..... Nice one for uploading my man, I'm away to tackle it this afternoon 😎🤙🏻
Good luck with it mate.
I have bought 2 lowered swing axle beetles and brought both back to stock height. I wish I would have seen this video first. Both times I got it wrong and had to do it twice! Thanks! This will help me in the future.
Thanks for posting this. I’m about to raise a bug for the first time and knowing where stock is really helps.
Cheers and good luck, really straightforward once you know the factory trick.
Brilliant just what I needed a plane simple way to set back to standard👍👍👍
Many thanks
Awesome! I’m trying to unlower a 66 bug now and will give this a try to align it to half that bolt hole.
Great video mate - If I ever get to the end of the weldathon on my Mexi, I'll need to change the springplates on it because they're rotten as well!
Do you have any tips for stock setting for a '70 IRS? Thanks for a great video!
Hi, I dont know much about IRS set up's apart from they handle better! Sorry I cannot help further. Cheers.
I have learned a lot from mexicans about restorating my vw 181
A friend of mine is a VW mechanic in Mexico and works exclusively on Beetles. He told me that stock height is for the bottom edge of the spring plate to touch the top of the bolt hole. That places the ride height half a bolt lower than what you show.
My friend, who is also a VW mechanic based in Mexico told me my method is correct. So both of these "mechanics" cannot be true, but one will be.
Probably a stupid question but if the plate is covering half the hole, how do you get the bolt in?
no such thing as a stupid question. The swing axle covers half a bolt hole in its relaxed state. You then need a bit of force to lift it up a bit and push it into the car. This then leaves the hole available to put a bolt in.
Another question: what if I pulled out my torsion bar?
@@robertsupriano1969 If you cannot get your swing arm to sit exactly covering half of the bolt hole then you will need to sdjust the torsion bar an inner spline or two. Hope that makes sense, let me know if not.
@@MrNomadnero yes it made sense. Using your advice I got the car pretty much where I wanted it this morning. It rides better now! Thanks!
How do we know where the inner splines need to be for stock height or does it not matter?
Is the key just the outside splines and when installing the swing axle as you explained.
Thanks in advanced, great video!
👍
Hi, if you cannot get the spring plate to show exactly half of that bottom thread then the inner spline is inncorrect. Adjust the inner spline by one and see if the spring axle will show exactly half.
You need to show half of that thread for stock height. Good luck.
@@MrNomadnero Thank you, 👍will try that!!
should i grease the spines on the torsion bar as well as the bushes?
Wouldnt do it any harm, would need to be careful af any cross contamination with different greases. As you can see I didnt put any on mine but now Im thinking I should have.