Late arms into older beam ?

[garomy]

I'm building a beam for my scab, the beam is a 61 with fannelic bushings and the arms came out of a 65 bus. My problems is after cutting the bushing for the bearings in the newer arms they wont fit on the older beam.
What to do, should I file the arms or file the fennalic bushing in the old beam? I'm installing 65 lowered spindles in a 2 inch narrowed 61 beam.

[Major Woody]

"Fanellic" = phenolic.

[flat]

You could remove the outer phenolics, find someone with a lathe and open up the bore to fit the later arms...about 0.010"
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[joe56vw]

use one of these newer bushing and they will fit better

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=318624

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=576770

i used the breens bushings on mine they went right in no problem
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why is there no sarcasism button on here?

[Bryan67]

later arms have a metal sleeve about 2 inches long that can be knocked off fairly easily. I had to do this when puytting a CB Performance beam on my 65 panel. That may work for you.
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