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When driving marginally legal vehicles on the street its kinddah important to know what/who's behind you.
The A pillar is so narrow, and with the new firewall I cant see a damn thing out back unless I drive into the ditch or oncoming lanes to check the mirrors.
Had to go to the Dodge playbook and Cornhoolio the mirrors. Whipped up some 3" extensions. Kinddah fugly but whatever.

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ExWrench said:
That is 690% better than chaining your floor jack under the housing & jacking up the spring plate - I'mm'a steal that trick :grinpimp:
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4200% better than ripping my lift outtah the floor like last time. :mad3::mad3:

Stupid easy. Did both sides in under an hour. Had to buy a binder and chain off chinazon but it was worth the $30 all day.
 
Sceep said:
4200% better than ripping my lift outtah the floor like last time. :mad3::mad3:

Stupid easy. Did both sides in under an hour. Had to buy a binder and chain off chinazon but it was worth the $30 all day.
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Everyone needs a chain and boomer though
 
bdkw1 said:
You don't have a comealong?
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No. I despise those things. I guess I could have run a winch over the roof though. :laughing:

The binder worked tits for tiny adjustments to line up the 3 mid arm bolts. Come along would have sucked for that.
 
Sceep said:
Mini chain binder between the shock mounts for the torsion bar adjusting WIN. :smokin:
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There is an OEM tool for it and if you google "vw springplate tool" you'll find some variations, but yours does the trick.

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ExWrench said:
That is 690% better than chaining your floor jack under the housing & jacking up the spring plate - I'mm'a steal that trick
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We had a kid in the shop trying to just lift the springplate on a Beetle with a floorjack. Couldn't quite realize that he was lifting the whole car... :lmao:
 
PAToyota said:
There is an OEM tool for it and if you google "vw springplate tool" you'll find some variations, but yours does the trick.
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Yup. A binder and chain will prove much more useful over the years for a fraction of the cost though. :smokin: Hopefully I only have to to adjust them one more time. :laughing:

It drives nice, much softer, but its dragging ass bad. Apparently I didn't read the spline change chart correctly and went a little low. Going to wait until I get a trail day again to see how bad I bottom out, but fully expecting that it needs to lift 3"+.
 
Torsion adjusters are sounding pretty good right now aren't they?

:flipoff2:

Edit, do they even make those for bus housings? I keep forgetting about that.
 
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