I will be wanting to adapt different brakes to my 84 Caravelle, possibly necessitating fitting of South African front hubs, and need to know: What year were the spindles changed? Did they change at the same time in all markets? My 80-84 Bentley manual shows pressed welded lower control arms with bolted-on strut bar. Apparently the later Bentley states that the control arms from 1984 were changed to cast steel and simultaneously changed FROM a balljointed strut bar location TO bolted. So the early & late Bentleys appear to disagree with one another. One says pre85: pressed arm with bolted-on strut bar. The other says pre85: pressed arm with balljointed strut bar, cast arm with bolt-on strut bar. Does anyone know whether in fact there was an intermediate pressed arm with bolt-on strut bar, as shown in my Bentley? Also it has been brought to my attention that power-steer versions have shorter tierods than nonpowered ones, so you need to take this into consideration when changing your steering setup. Due to the short tierods, power-steer vehicles should therefore have longer control arms on the knuckles (the tierods are balljointed on the ends of the control arms). Comments? |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.