Interesting, I'd suggest a few pics but maybe you can build a pivot bracket around the axle tube and mount it that way? The pivot
would allow the bar to angle up to the frame.
If you have brackets hanging down, the trailering issue may be a concern especially getting up over the ramp with the rear wheels.
-----Original Message-----
From: Denis Dodson
Sent: Feb 21, 2008 10:28 AM
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Re: So, Chuck is here
The bars attach at the bottoms of the shocks and then at the
frame, but we can't get to the frame by about... 3 1/2 inches.
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Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:31
AM
Subject: [tcb] Re: So, Chuck is
here
humm, where are you putting the metal at the tie points on
the chassis or out on the axle tubes?
Since the stock RGB height offset
is about 3 1/2 inches, that's a big gap.
-----Original
Message-----
From: Denis Dodson
Sent: Feb 21, 2008
8:00 AM
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Re: So, Chuck is here
BRIAN IS THE WINNER! No RGBs. We will weld in a couple
of pieces of metal to hold the brackets.
I would go drive him around, but the wiring is all
hanging out all over while Chuck is doing surgery on his wire world. An
elder VW guy up here looked under the dash and asked if I was trying to run
220 from there.
Today we will do the brakes deluxe and finish the
wiring.
Cold here. 32 degrees and freezing rain. Good thing to
be inside.
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Original Message -----
Sent:
Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:36 AM
Subject:
[tcb] Re: So, Chuck is here
you don't have gear reduction boxes???
because
it's lowered???
becasue you put the front bar on the
back???
From: coocoo@xxxxxxx
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb]
So, Chuck is here
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:46:17
-0600
I bought an after market sway bar when I
was at the Bulli Brigade. Best swap meet ever. Anyway, I bought two bars
and 4 boxes of parts. Not until today did I turn out all the boxes and
instructions onto a table. The instructions looked like something from
Indiana Jones. The envelopes were manila from, like the Korean War and
the papers were all termite eaten and crumbly. But there was even a
really old decal. The company was Addon. They made
swaybars.
As a fluke I Googled them. They are making
sway bars for Lotus, They are still in business big time. I call the 800
number. They answer. I say I have some really old stuff here for a "63
VW bus. She says, "Kit 935?" and I look at the Egyptian looking stuff
and find the number. "Yes, could you E-mail me the instructions?" "Yes,
Do you also have the rear kit, 735?" I look "Yes" She emails
both.
So, my friend, Brad, who built my big
new room, and Chuck install the front bar while I found tools and
washers and took abuse.
We come to the rear bar and we attach
everything at the shocks, but then the bar won't come up high enough to
attach at the frame. The bars that run under and parallel to the
tranny, in front of the tranny support wont let the bar make contact
with the frame.
Why?
We told this tale to another long time VW
guy, and he knew immediately.
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