VW's.......How do they work????

[Big T]

A very broad question I know!! Basically I'm thinking of jumping to the good ship air cooled and being the person I am I like to research whatever I'm looking to get!! Now I see all these low bays and wonder "How is that done??" and I hear words and parts and think "wheres that go??". So basically does anyone have a good link, or care to explain, the workings of a bays suspension??

Whats the basics??

How do these adjusters work??

Drop spindles, how come some use em and others don't??

I'm interested!!! :lol:

 

[faux]

That is a big question!

There could be many answers to this and with the aircooled community there is not one specific answer as it comes down to the individual.

There are a lot of better people to answer this one than me but I'll have a go:

Basics. Bays have a front beam which has a top and bottom tube, these contain torsion leaves which are attached in the centre by a grub screw and on the outer ends they have trailing arms which fix to the spindles. The amount of give in the leaves creates the suspension...along with shocks either side.

Adjusters. Where the grub screws are fixed to the upper and lower tubes a small section is cut out and a toothed adjuster is welded in, this allows the torsion leaves to be rotated allowing the trailing arms to move up and down. Thus higher and lower suspension.

Dropped spindles. These are used to improve the ride quality and safety. When you lower a bus with adjusters it can put strain on the ball joints and shorten the travel on the shocks resulting in a hard ride. Dropped spindles compensate for this by allowing for more shock travel and less strain on the ball joints.

To confuse things further, if you want to go really low safely and more comfortably some people choose to use the older style king and link pin set up as this removes the problems of balljoints and the dropped spindles have a 3 1/2" drop.

There are plenty of threads on here where people have used various routes, have a good read through my thread as it has a bit on how I used the king and link pin route. Grazy and Egotrippin have also done this amongst others.

Great choice if you do go down the Bay route.

Jon

 

[ant]

well explained jon

 

[Big T]

Thanks Jon, thats put a few things into place for me!!

 

[dubby]

Just to buck the trend I have a view that "high is the new low", leave your bus standard ride height and get people guessing,,, has he raised it ?, everyone is slamming ( and it does look good ), soon people wont recognize standard. I bumped along in my lowered bay last season, beat my new ss exhaust in within a month of fitting, and crossed camping fields with my nuts in a sling,,, now im running a standard ride height splitty and it can handle any surface. I admit it has to, cos when theres a cross wind it just pushes me off the road !!!!
Remember, you heard it here first,,, high is the new low.
Dubby

 

[faux]

Just to buck the trend I have a view that "high is the new low", leave your bus standard ride height and get people guessing,,, has he raised it ?, everyone is slamming ( and it does look good ), soon people wont recognize standard. I bumped along in my lowered bay last season, beat my new ss exhaust in within a month of fitting, and crossed camping fields with my nuts in a sling,,, now im running a standard ride height splitty and it can handle any surface. I admit it has to, cos when theres a cross wind it just pushes me off the road !!!!
Remember, you heard it here first,,, high is the new low.
Dubby

You may well be right. You'll be back to the ways of the bay soon.... :idea:

 

[Guest]

Standard height looks odd because low seems to be the norm now :? .

I do have a thing about syncros and those stupidly high baja buses :twisted: i guess super high or lowered both look cool/tough in their own ways