Re: [T3] Torsion bars, Front Suspension, Apron clips

["Dave Hall" <dave@hallvw.clara.co.uk>]

Who'd ever need the heater muffler things from under the back seat?  My
thoughts last year when someone put some on the club stand.  Blow me if
someone only went and bought them!  A careless welder had damaged the
originals.  I've sent a drive hub to someone who had damaged splines.

But it's very difficult to be sure it would come in handy one day, unless
you throw it away!

Dave.
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
http://www.hallvw.clara.net/
-----Original Message-----
From: Forsman/Harris <akatieh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
To: type3@vwtype3.org <type3@vwtype3.org>; Keith Park
<TopNotchResto@worldnet.att.net>
Date: 12 May 1999 14:22
Subject: Re: [T3] Torsion bars, Front Suspension, Apron clips


>Keith wrote: "If the beam isn't rusted or bent you WANT to save it!!"
>
>Well, sure, everyone wants me to save it in the abstract, myself
>included.  But when it comes to actually WANTING it, it's another
>question entirely.  I mean, I already have an extra front end in great
>condition taking up space in my basement, and another one that's needs
>work but isn't rusty.  I'm all for saving parts, but without anyone who
>wants to USE the parts, it doesn't quite amount to recycling.  It starts
>to look more like a weird obsession, a bizarre fetishization of used car
>parts, and I'll end up with a funny obit in the Baltimore Sun when the
>city finds me crushed under type3 parts in a house filled to the ceiling
>with them.  I mean, I've saved stuff I'm sure nobody will ever use.
>Does anybody want a couple of those hot air mufflers that go under the
>rear seat?  How about a windshield washer fluid bottle?  Glove box
>door?  Under door aiNICīoses and fittings?  :  )
>
>Seriously, though, how about rear hubs? I see that RMMW sells 'em, but
>who'd need one?  Do they ever go bad?
>
>"... it's the stabilizers taht are larger on the squares  and you want
>to save that and at least the left upper torsion arm.  Save the lower
>torsion arms and seals if the arms aren't bent as they bend easily, I d
>save the lower bars too.. they break.  and OH the bump stops."
>
>Well, if your encouragement works and I decide to save any of it, I'll
>just drop the whole front end, and save it all as a package.  That's the
>probably the most efficient way.
>
>I thought that the torsion bars in the REAR suspension were what was
>larger in the late (?) squares.  Are there any variations in the rear
>suspension torsion bars over the years and/or accross the different
>models?
>
>Eric Forsman, '73 Square
>Baltimore, MD
>cc replies to: forsman/harris@jhu.edu
>
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