<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 3, 2013, at 12:32 PM, Gary Forsmo wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>It appears that you've cut a small, square access hole in the lower<br>portion of the axle beam.<br>I assume there is (or will be) another access hole to accommodate the<br>"companion" air-ride hardware on the other end of the beam?<br>In the picture, are we looking at the right or left end?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, there will need to be an access hole on both the left and the right side of the beam. The photo is of the front of the right hand side of the beam.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>While you have the beam "open", can you put a micrometer on the<br>thickness of the axle beam metal stamping?<br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>What is that nominal dimension?<br>Or does the dimension vary, depending on where you mic the metal?<br>If VW stamped the axle beam, I would suspect there would be some<br>"stretching/thinning" of the metal, depending on how much "draw" the<br>stamping required.<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>The thickness measures 2.0 mm just about everywhere that I can get a caliper on it. There are a couple of areas that were 0.1-0.15mm thinner due to the stretching/thinning during the stamping process.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Later,<br>John Jaranson<br><a href="http://www.carartbyjohn.com">www.carartbyjohn.com</a><br><br></span></div></div></body></html>