1970 early bay rear torsion beam and spring plates

[boody2008]

hi all
just got a front beam sorted, for my shell rebuild.
now thinking about the rear,
does anyone know, if rear torsion beam and spring plates,are the same on a late bay,as early bay
as a friend said that they have different splines and longer or shorter spring plates.
any advice would be great

mines a 1970 bay
thx boody

 

[67 BAY]

Late bay's have different amount of splines and the spring plates are longer




Steve

 

[sparkywig]

Your friend is correct. Later springplates are longer than early ones.
Dropped springplates I know, but you can see the difference in splines between early ('68-'71),

and later ('71-'79)

 

[boody2008]

thx guys
if i was to get a late bay and take all the rear irs and torsion beam of would these swap over.
sorry if i sound a idiot !
new to veeduds
thx again

 

[sparkywig]

Why not just get some early springplates?

 

[moler]

I didn't know late springplates where longer than early

The 'A' arms are different too, it's a lot of work changing the whole torsion tube, but if that's what you need to do there's no reason why you couldn't get an early one, they do get broken up too.

 

[boody2008]

hi
yeah van is just a 1970 shell
found some green torsion beams with 17 inch spring plates
on ebay £20
off a 1968 bay
there cheap enough
going to leeds vw fest today
so hopefully get a bit more info
thx again to u all
this site is wicked!!!!!