[tcb] Re: So, Chuck is here

  • From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:21:03 -0800 (PST)

That's why I don't run sway bars on my lowered cars.  Speed bumps, trailers etc.

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         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.
    ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Will Wood 
  To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  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.
    ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brian Denning 
  To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  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???


    
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  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.
   
  What is the problem?

  
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