Rear Wheel Height Measurement for Beetle 1961

[eriksonalex1307]

Hello... could anyone know what it the correct Measurement for Standard / normal rear wheel height ?? Would it be possible to get the correct standard Height By adjusting The plate that i circled on the photo ??

[ZEKE65]

You will need a digital incline meter, or some way to measure the angle. But I found this chart when I was setting my rear end up. The measurement is taken with the arm off of the lower stop, and hanging down. You have to be really careful getting the torque plate off of the stop because it will snap down, and can injure you. You can place a jack under the arm with a chain around the jack to the car to keep it from raising up. Or you can buy a screw jack type tool to do it. These are the angle to have a stock height. With the car level.

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1965 VW Sedan, 1968 C10 Step BB, 99 C5

[eriksonalex1307]

To be honest , i'm still confused. Anyway thank you very much for the chart... appreciated it very much

[Q-Dog]

like this.

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Brian

'69 Dune Buggy
'69 Beetle Convertible
'70 Beetle

[eriksonalex1307]

Thank you for the picture.. so what degree should be the original one for 1962 beetle ??

[ZEKE65]

17 1/2 degrees
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1965 VW Sedan, 1968 C10 Step BB, 99 C5

[eriksonalex1307]

Thank you so much

[rcroane]

Make sure you read up on how to adjust the torsion bar spring plates. There are plenty of threads on the subject and some videos. It's not a simple job and, as pointed out, you can injure yourself. Also, the spring plate angle quoted above assumes the car is level, so you'll need to compensate for that when adjusting the torsion bar splines.

This tool makes the job easier/safer.

https://www2.cip1.com/acc-c10-7047/
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'65 Sunroof Bug