Look what I found!

[slik]

I wanted to order wheels for my bug. I called tech support where I wanted to order them and they told me to take off my wheel. Measure 3.5 inches from where the wheel bolts on the drum, basically the front face and make sure it won't hit anything on the inside of the fender. There is a funky looking protrusion that branches right off where the shock is mounted that looks like someone whacked off the branch of a tree. I'm gonna try to post a pic. As a newbie I have no idea what this thing is but I'm sure to you all its obvious what it is. Its awfully close to the existing tire.


Wut the hell?! it came out upside down haha! Well if you could all turn your laptops over and give me some friendly advice. It looks the new wheels will come really close to that thing that branches off.

[vwsonmybrain]

Hard to tell in your photo, but it looks like someone hacked off the bump stop. Perhaps it was lowered quite a bit in the past?

[slik]

Wow. That's weird at first photo appeared upside down I Thot. Now it's right side up. I'll post another larger pic but that stump thing branching off near the top right of the tire is next to the tire not inside where the wheel indents. So it's already quite close to the tire. Bout maybe three or four inches away from the rubber.

Man this is os weird. On my iPad the pic in the post appears right side up but on my mac it appears upside down.

[slik]

Man I'm sorry bout the dark and sideways pix. I have no idea wits happening. Must be because I'm taking them with my iPhone.

SO anyway thx to the previous poster for answering my question I assume a bump stop is just wit it says. It stops the wheel from flying up and hitting fender if you hit a bump to hard huh? It looks like a scalloped piece of metal that underneath it has a big rubber bumper that looks like it would hit it if the tire travels too far.

Does the bump stop typically get in the way of new wider wheels?

[vwsonmybrain]

Okay... in your new photos, everything looks normal. Whether or not wider wheels will hit it or not will, obviously, depend on the offset of the particular wheel you're using. That's what the tech support is asking you to do by measuring 3.5" from the face of the drum. Sorry... probably not much help. You'll just have to do some measuring and comparisons to what you have on it now.

[61SNRF]

Found the best photo I could in the Gallery of what the bump stops normally look like...

It should all be a one piece casting. Does your's look like anything else has been cut, welded or added on?
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[slik]

Thanks so much. Yup thats it. Man does my bug need cleaned up haha. Want to get some new shocks too. Ok so if I measure the 3.5 inches from the face of the drum and it even misses the bump stop by a half inch is that enough clearance for the wheels I want?

[slik]

[slik]

Although I'm not a longtime member you all have helped me so much. You may remember me as starting the infamous love the lowered bug look thread that went on forever haha. Well just Thot I owed u all an update cuz I haven't been around. I was suffering from shoulder pain for a long time. Turned out it was a spur that finally snapped my bicep in half. Docs had to grind off spur n reattach my bicep. 3 months in a sling which I'm still in. Gonna be a long road back. I'll be back to work on my bug ASAP n thanks everyone for helping a newbie!

[drscope]

OUCH slik, that sounds painful!

Heal quickly man!
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[Fowl3r]

Any update?

[slik]

Been absent for a long time. Had a Serious injury and got sidetracked. I finally got my Vw out of the barn and back on track. Got her running real nice and now to do a lot of structural stuff. Suspension, wiring etc.

One headlight out. Move blinkers out of headlight bubble (too hard for oncoming traffic to see.) fix Horn etc.

Just had her out last night.

[itskyle]

[slik]

Thanks Kyle! Not ready to part with it just yet. I get what the plate means now tho. I'm becoming somewhat of a bug hoarder now. Hot wheels, models etc. it's an addiction!

[slik]

this engine was a '74 1600 put in 63 bug. By the looks of it can anyone confirm if it is a dual port and is this the model engine they call a type 4? Really newbie questions so thanks in advance

[vwsonmybrain]

[slik]

Thanks a lot! I am reading books. Watching YouTube and reading this site but every once in a while I need clarity on some things. I belong to some fitness, fishing and various forums. By far this forum seems to have the friendliest and most helpful members. I guess that says something about bug owners!