What can you tell me about IRS Kits

[toolman2800]

what have your heard, likes, dislikes, problems?
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[sled]

IRS is great.

ryno's brackets are nice

wagenswest is nice too although ive heard of some fitment issues.


those two are the most cost effective in my opinion. both of these are for beetle IRS while there are some kits offered to swap in bus IRS. bus IRS is also nice as there is slightly more travel in the cv's if youre trying to go super low or super high. for stock height, either will work.

also, with IRS you will have to run a slightly smaller tires than the stock tires as IRS gearing is taller. i suppose if you had a very large motor that could handle the extra load of tall gears then you wouldnt have to get smaller tires. an early beetle IRS is a 4.12 R&P while a late beetle IRS is a 3.88 R&P. the 4.12 would work better if you want closer to stock sized tires while 3.88 would work well if you want to go low and use small tires.
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[Lohe]

Who carries ryno's brackets please?

[sled]

ryno (ryan) does. you can find his add here on the samba. Ryno's Dub Shop.
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[Clara]

I heard you have to hack your bus to install IRS.
To me that is a large detraction.
Why are you wanting IRS? I mean, if it is a gearing thing, there are gearing options available while keeping it a bolt on swing axle trans.

I had someone tell me that I NEEDED to swap my baja truck over to IRS to get the gearing I wanted.
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[House]

I would like to shoot whoever did this one...

[sled]

i think we established in another thread that there is no hacking involved in an IRS swap....


maybe he wants to put IRS in just so he has something to do?



IRS is bolt on.
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[toolman2800]

After talking with some of the most knowledgable people in fl. Chad, Kip, Mike FP, I have decided to go with IRS for longevity and reliability and the heavy duty bay brakes. around here we have had lots of trubble with falcrum plates, and spinning drums. I want to put it to gather and never touch it again. I believe I am going with 68-69 bus Hubs, Spring plates, Axils, and trailing arms, used with a 4.12 Beetle trans with a .82 final installed. anyone know if Ryno Buckets will work with bus trailing arms.
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[toolman2800]

Will

we have had this conversation before I spell for no man.
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[Clara]

[toolman2800]

well we had a bad run of drums a while back then a run of bad axil tubes, a shortage of type 3 brake componets, we are mostly runnin beetle rear drums these days. I say Round Here because I haven't had time to talk to any body outside florida.
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[vw7266]

yea theres no hack to irs at all...maybe a little trim if you trying to really lay it low...but I didnt have to trim too much. I bought mine from ryan...I think it may have been the first set he made for someone other than himself? I was happy with everything, props to rynos63

[toolman2800]

[vw7266]

im running a 4:12 out of a 73 square...with the larger type 3 rear brakes...also runnin the thin adapter on them too to get from the 4 lug to 5 lug

pm me if you need any other details

[toolman2800]

[Mikee]

[sled]

to simply instal beetle IRS there is no cutting involved.

if you feel the need to cut then you must be trying to go low, which it does not sound like he is.

to install bus IRS there is cutting involved.



i have done a highly modified IRS swap into my bus. if i didnt want it to be super low then i wouldnt have had to make ANY cuts.


never said RGB's sucked, simply said that IRS CAN be a simply bolt on application if you so desire.
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