Hi,
Having owned my 1968/69 Beetle for a year I have started to turn my attention to the suspension and need some help
The PO has lowered the front by about 4 inches and the rear by about 2. This gives the sloped stance which I quite like and not too extreme.
I am not very happy about the handling and lack of suspension and need some advise on how to improve it.
Can't find a good website OR a good book - Can anyone recommend anything?
Also I have no idea on how or what to improve. It has a adjuster on the front that's all I can see. Not sure if its got dropped splines or has any other improvements.
My main problems are. Front Suspension is hardly there. It bumps (spine breaking) and has no spring when you bounce the front and hardly any travel. There is quite a bit of bump steer and also tramlining on white lines etc.
I see many parts on-line shorter shocks, caster shims, swaybars, dropped splines,..... etc..... BUT I don't want to spend / waste money on trying to improve it without understanding what I am doing.
All I have done so far is greased the front beam, connected back the steering damper and changed, adjusted and greased the wheel bearings.
Can anyone point me to a good source of information?
What is the Top 5 things i should check?
What are the top 5 things I can replace / buy to improve the suspension?
Having owned my 1968/69 Beetle for a year I have started to turn my attention to the suspension and need some help
The PO has lowered the front by about 4 inches and the rear by about 2. This gives the sloped stance which I quite like and not too extreme.
I am not very happy about the handling and lack of suspension and need some advise on how to improve it.
Can't find a good website OR a good book - Can anyone recommend anything?
Also I have no idea on how or what to improve. It has a adjuster on the front that's all I can see. Not sure if its got dropped splines or has any other improvements.
My main problems are. Front Suspension is hardly there. It bumps (spine breaking) and has no spring when you bounce the front and hardly any travel. There is quite a bit of bump steer and also tramlining on white lines etc.
I see many parts on-line shorter shocks, caster shims, swaybars, dropped splines,..... etc..... BUT I don't want to spend / waste money on trying to improve it without understanding what I am doing.
All I have done so far is greased the front beam, connected back the steering damper and changed, adjusted and greased the wheel bearings.
Can anyone point me to a good source of information?
What is the Top 5 things i should check?
What are the top 5 things I can replace / buy to improve the suspension?