King Pin Help

[santa ana bug]

I just bought a 1963 with original stock beam....The only issue was that the king pin bushins had cracked and needed to be repaired. Well I took them to a shop and the reamed and rebuilt the things but I dont know what order or how many shims, rubber o ring go in ......I tried seaching but no luck does any one have a diagram?

[ballsie]

Do you have the Dave Muir Idiot book? I believe there is a formula in that book. Gotta take a few measurements on the trailing arms and put em in the formula and it will tell you how many shims will go on the inside and outside.
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bagged 64

[glutamodo]

That's the John Muir "Idiot" book. Actually any manual that covers the 1965/older VWs will discuss about how to set up your link pins in relation to the offset of the trailing arms. The shim chart, well here's one:

[FINEGERMANSTEEL]

have you measured to see what your offsets are?
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[Joey]

Here's how to measure the offset:

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Joey

‘60 Kombi - '74 Bus - '79 Panel - '65 Beetle

[FINEGERMANSTEEL]

nice.i like that drawing
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--MovedFromSeattleArea2SpokaneLate2021-----------
60 bus mango
61 bug. low n slow1200
65 bus project_sadly sold it
66 squareback project..in process..kinda
--CultWagen--slowlow61