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On 8 Feb 2001, at 21:39, Greg Merritt wrote: > >Do you understand that, unlike the beetle, the type 3 front end > >already includes a sway bar? > The Type I front beam contains no "integrated" anti-sway, as does the > Type III, naturally. > > However, starting roughly around the late 1950s, I believe, the > Type I received an anti-sway bar as standard equipment. My '62 Beetle > had one -- which I replaced with a much thicker/stiffer one. The > stock one is maybe, I dunno, a centimeter or so thick. > > So, the Beetle didn't have one, then it got one, but it was > externally mounted to the lower trailing arms. My Type III add-on > front torsion bar mounts in precisely the same way -- with *no* holes > to drill! Okay, I forgot about the "factory add-on" one that started coming on Beetles after some point (although I thought it started about 10 years later than you.) Still, my point is that on a type 3 there is an internal one already on there, built into the original design. - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe