Lowering My Bay

The next in my series of stoopid questions is :-

How do i lower this bad boy ? The front looks like i have a jack underneath it

Cheers peeps

Gaz

Drop the beam out and fit adjusters. how low do you want to go?.

Not too far cos it will be a family bus so need to keep it fairly respectable

How do you go aboout it though ?

You have to take the beam out drill out the dimpels holding the center coller in place (both tubes) make slot where the locating screw go's into the tube and coller so it can rotate around the tube. at this point you weld in the adjusters.

Shit that sounds complicated

Stereophoney wrote:Shit that sounds complicated

other altrenative is to look for a 2nd hand beem already cut with adjuters in it

ive seen then on vzi for around 80 to 100 notes...........

er.......i take it your doing this for the FIRST time mate???

and .............are you dropping the back end too??

Sometimes the beams can be a bastard to get out. took me nearly 3hrs to drop one down the other week it was siezesd solid onto the van.

oilyT wrote:Sometimes the beams can be a bastard to get out. took me nearly 3hrs to drop one down the other week it was siezesd solid onto the van.

you will have the poor fella bricking it now Barry

all part of the fun of owning a vee dub...........so they say

Mario wrote:

oilyT wrote:Sometimes the beams can be a bastard to get out. took me nearly 3hrs to drop one down the other week it was siezesd solid onto the van.

you will have the poor fella bricking it now Barry

all part of the fun of owning a vee dub...........so they say

Well you've got to now what your gettig yourself into.

Yeah this is my first bus Mario so i'm learning as i go

oilyT wrote:

Mario wrote:

oilyT wrote:Sometimes the beams can be a bastard to get out. took me nearly 3hrs to drop one down the other week it was siezesd solid onto the van.

you will have the poor fella bricking it now Barry

all part of the fun of owning a vee dub...........so they say

Well you've got to now what your gettig yourself into.

yeh but do it gently to the poor fella

Stereophoney wrote:Yeah this is my first bus Mario so i'm learning as i go

mate we have ALL been there at some point


NEVER be afraid to ask ANY question...if we can help then we sure will


just be prepared for a piss take on the way,especially once me n dickie get started


oh and dont forget..........NO question is a silly question

first off check if its got ajusters in it , you never know your luck ,

right then, ive been searching around a bit whilst the whisky bubbles away and.......here are some pics for you dude................


beam before cutting/welding..........






and............during the process of marking/cutting/welded









Dont forget too........depending on how low you wanna go,there will be stuff like lowered shocks to think about too

Cheers Mario, looks like a bastard of a job

Might buy one ready done seeing as this is a first timer

Stereophoney wrote:Cheers Mario, looks like a bastard of a job

Might buy one ready done seeing as this is a first timer

i would matey...............ive been keepin an eye out on VZI for you

Ah nice one mate

Remind me to buy you a drink when i eventually meet everyone

Toastie wrote:first off check if its got ajusters in it , you never know your luck ,

what he said

Yeah i did look toastie but i'm pretty sure it hasn't, used up all my luck getting the bus

i done mine meself pretty much how the pics show (although i didnt lay down pigeon shit welding like that )fitting the adjusters is a piece of p... getting the beam out is a little harder but not that hard if its not rusted on i d never done one before but i did it.
didnt drop mine much just a few inches loads better i thinks
CSP adjusters are what i fitted bout 80 squids each i think now
if yer dont have any luck with finding a lowered beam get the old one out and i can weld in the adjusters for ya matey

Ah nice one mate cheers i'll keep that in mind

If you don't specifically NEED to be able to adjust the height at the front again, after you've lowered it................... you don't need expensive adjusters.

When you've drilled the dimples you cut a slot the right length for the drop, screw a beetle wheel bolt in the tapped hole in the centre section (same thread), and knock it round. Then weld it all back up again.

One lowered beam - no parts required.

edit: needs critical measurement & calculations - the slot length is critical to the drop you'll get