Morning All,

I got my pan back from the blaster/painter and it seems the torsion bars have slipped out of the housings, probably due to me removing the covers to allow him to blast and paint under them. As its been moved around his workshop its possibly been knocked and allowed the arms to slip out of alignment. See photos.

I presume these arms are under a lot of sprung tension, is there any easy way to rectify this, apart from maybe a network of ratchet straps around my garage?!

Thanks in advance,

Chris

Hi Chris
Can you not just put a bolt through the upper shock mount and hook a ratchet strap into that and down to the cut out onto the spring plate and up you go.

if it was a beetle before  painting and not a buggy they need to come off and be reset possibly 1 inner spline before refitting.

As its been blasted strip the lot out have a good clean and refit

Found this from way back, may be a few helpful pieces of info for you

http://www.beachbuggy.info/index.php/topic,2633.msg29458.html#msg29458

H

Thanks for all the info. It has been a buggy previously. I'll try a ratchet strap on both sides, just ordered myself some billet covers to put on too when they're in the correct position again. Cheers.