[T3] Parting out front axle and rear subframe!

[Jim Adney]

On 17 Sep 2011 at 11:11, Bobsnotch at aol.com wrote:

> Keith is right. Sometimes the hub will try to destroy the axle splines  
> too, causing a continued issue of that wheel/hub not being able to stay tight.  
> The only solution is replacing the axle stub. Also, the German bearings are 
>  of far better quality than what can be purchased today.  

I'll certainly save the stub axles and all the bearings, spacers, 
etc. Right now I'm trying to decide whether to save the spring plates 
and the diagonal arms w/bushings.

Many years ago I worked on a car after someone else had messed up the 
L diagonal arm. IIRC, they had the parking brake cable coming out 
under the diagonal arm instead of over it. As a consequence, they had 
not been able to get the diagonal arm pivot bolt back in, and it had 
just been left out. Years of pushing against the body work had 
deformed one of the bushings, so I couldn't just take things apart 
and put them back together correctly.

I had to take the diagonal arm out, remove both bushings, replace 
both bushings, and then install it correctly. To do that, I had to 
get a pivot bolt and spacers from a junkyard. All in all, it was a 
horrible job that took days of scrounging to finish, all because 
someone else couldn't be bothered to do the job right in the first 
place.

Because of that experience, I'm reluctant to throw away diagonal arms 
with good rubber bushings.

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Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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