monstaru

Couple pieces of tube. I can move onto cycling the suspension I think. cheers

Yeah, In your mind. It is a sealed cartridge for a reason. It's just not that simple. The task at hand ,that is.

I really wanted to try an help. But that is the dumbest thing you could have done. I would start over. Welding flange metal (like double layered, sticking out and away from strut body) is one thing. But directly to the strut body is foolish. Especially if you can't even control your welding heat properly. The ONLY possible way to do it safely is not do it. This is not even going to damper besides what the spring will accomplish now. You just ruint your strut. Go buy another strut ,And some tube, then cut and paste.

I am going EVERYWHERE with it!!!! LOL

I also am ready to build (have materials now)a skid plate mount/t-case mount. I can get ready to fully test suspension here real soon. I have had several moments of doubt during this entire situation. However times are looking up, and I am enjoying the time I get to spend on it. I think I can get the front straightened out pretty quick here, now that the base measurements have worked out. I was slightly retarded because I forgot to put the plumb bobs down before I cut the front of the frame off.DOH!!!

Except , the Super Beetle struts are inserts. You need the VeeWee strut body to weld to. Seriously? Did you not get the "insert" part? Once again. NO pics. How do you expect people to help you with no reference of what you are doing. The smaller struts were what was used to insert into the existing bodies. IIRC..... You are actually better off buying tube and mounting the bottoms of the struts to it. And make spring perches.And, AND, AND.,.,.,,,, THen make a collar to hold the strut in the body threaded on the top. Please don't do spoob if your gonna put others in danger.

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It comes along.....

Hee Hee......

Awesome! Now get that thing in 4WD!! Cheers

Common to remove them. You Could make removable pins.<br />But at that rate you have to be able to "stow" the swaybar in an up position somehow.<br /><br />I always just took mine off completely.<br />cheers

The point of looking up the struts was to see that the later VW strut cartridge is what I used. I designed mine for 8 inches of travel. It technically could be run with about an 8" lift.IIRC cheers

Look up the struts on Monroe's website. I think it is before 72 that Is smaller.But that's what research is for......

There are two different lengths.I chose the longer setup because I was building them for my death buggy. You basically have to make the housing.By cutting the bottom mount off of both strut tubes.Then weld the EA series bottom on.(or whatever you are using) Then IIRC , the top hat needs to be clearanced a skosch to fit the threaded hold down shaft through it. I added the coilover springs as a secondary to the ones SUbruise has to see if I could make it multi level dampening like the big boy toys. Then I scrapped the project and traded them off to Billy. cheers

Nice! Get some pics of those bad boys on there!! cheers!

all you have to do is click the image code to the right of the photo and it should automatically copythe link. Then just paste it. It already has image codes around it.so no use to use it in THIS editor.(make sense?) cheers AND, I like what the outback stuff looks like! MOAR PICS!!

If you got those from Billy Omlin.I built them. They are VW struts , that i added the bottoms and tops to. I saw this thread and was trying to remember exactly what I did,or find pics.... AND, I would lke to get them from you. Let me know.I was just thinking about these the other day.When I saw his big for sale post. cheers

Saturday bro, Saturday cheers

DP

BRAVO. brAH fUAWKIN VO!!!!! I WANT THIS TYPE OF RACE SOOOOO BAD. Is this a series? cheers

Very nice.:)Me Likes...

NO. FAWKING. WAY.... I have a 4ft section of that PTO driveline, only mine is designated for a hop harvester. I have been planning to use it for slip if I needed it! (I originally had it to make slips for rear EA81 axles. I even found u-joint flanges that fit it at that point.)lol\ NICE Looks good. I would gusset those shock towers before you rip your frame yo.... I just re-acquired some RUFS to build mine this week. Excellent.... cheers