RE: [T3] What is this (half of a) part?

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

The tie-rod ends are all the same as the ones for a Bug same year, except
the inner one on the short rod which is angled.  Up to '67 models it's a
narrow taper, and from '68 it's a wide taper.
The longer inner one is left hand thread, and the same as the outer on the
shorter rod. 
The odd one is a right-hand thread 9 degree angled one, 311 415 818 (up to
'67) or 818 B ('68 on).  They are harder to find.

The inner joints fail less often, so you may not need the hard one to find
anyway.

Dave.
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua MacDonald [mailto:dotdotisdead@gmail.com] 
Sent: 13 August 2008 05:34
To: type3@vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] What is this (half of a) part?

Hi all,

I'm pretty sure (after looking at the car--if only my garage wasn't 10
blocks from my apartment!) that the picture was my upper bump stop.
Now the question is, how would I go about replacing such a thing?
Both sides are missing.

I just got my car back from the New York state inspection, it failed because
there is too much play in the tie rods.  Now I'm researching how to replace
tie rod ends.  It looks like it's pretty easy to find OUTER tie rod ends
with both right and left-hand threads.  But it doesn't look easy to find
INNER tie rod ends.  Are they the same?

P.S. New vintage plates!
http://picasaweb.google.com/dotdotisdead/1970VolkswagenFastback/photo#523385
5109494093698
http://picasaweb.google.com/dotdotisdead/1970VolkswagenFastback/photo#523385
5158161797394

Thanks,
Josh


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