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Thu Jun 24, 2004 11:26 pm

Hello all,

I'll hopefully be converting my swingaxle over to IRS soon and i'm in need of a jig that someone hopefully has no use for anymore. I dont have access to an IRS clip so I cant make one myself. I'm willing to pay a reasonable amount if someone is willing to give up this jig.

You can e-mail me a james.gocke@delta.com

Thanks very much,

Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:25 am

I am also looking for a jig in the Socal area..

Sat Jun 26, 2004 7:35 am

Most likely you will have to make your own. This is the one we made. See-> http://www.1800vw.bizhosting.com/irspivots.htm

Sun Jun 27, 2004 5:29 pm

I could use one also in san diego, does anyone know of a reputable shop that would do the conversion in san diego and the price range???

Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:11 pm

most shops couldn't stay in business doing swing to IRS ve conversions. if you have the necessary tools, welder, torch, etc. and have all of the other parts as well just take your time and triple check everything. take lots of measurements off of the donor (if you can) and take your time. tack everything, check measurements. start to fill in the welds, gradually (measure again), then finish welding and measure again. heat can change the orientation of the steel.

Thu Jul 15, 2004 7:39 pm

Gentlemen:
If you have a trailing arm, In my opinion, you have a jig. I waited and waited for a fellow down the street to lend me his, (I generally don't like borrowing) well, he could never find it (maybe he didn't like lending). In any event, since the jig is to replicate the trailing arm, (I assume) I decided to use the trailing arm itself. Word of advice; remove the brake drums to make them easier to handle, use new torsion bar bushings, but for jigging purposes, you don't need the torsion bars (you want to easily move the trailing arms up and down) but of course you want them indexed to the correct pivot point (hence the new tight bushings). This is the way I went, and it worked great...... EXCEPT.. I leveled the car, used a hardware store pendulum 'protractor' ($10.00) and
ASSUMED that if the new brackets were welded in exactly flat/parallel to the ground, I would end up with neutral camber..... NOT SO FOR ME.. I suspect once all was said and done, and weight was on the wheels, bushing wear and flex on the spring plates (shortened 64 spring plates flexing due to the leverage of 10" rims) I ended up with about 3 degrees negative camber (protractor on brake baking plates). I would suggest that if you go the route I did, factor in some positve camber before any final welding....I found using the drumless trailing arms real easy to use and rather straight forward, I just did not forsee the camber issue......... Good luck !!

Mon Jul 19, 2004 10:42 pm

I have a jig I made, and it made the conversion a piece of cake. It turns out that the mounts you can buy are far from precision, and require a fair amount of trimming to fit. I just slowly ground away until the new pivots bolted on without any interferance and welded them in place. They look pretty darn straight to me.

I willing to entertain offers on the jig. I'm located in sw Washington state.

Jeremyretterath@hotmail.com

Tue Mar 01, 2005 2:19 pm

For those of you living in So Cal, I have found Jig you can rent from Car Craft Inc in Riverside. They charge $125 to pick it up and you get $100 when you bring it back. So it cost you $25 to rent it for a week. Anyway, anyone who is interested can give them a ring at 951-781-4480.