Jeff, the trick to inspecting your torsion bars would be finding a vehicle that has them first. I'm pretty sure all vanagons came with coil springs front and rear. My van had a problem with upper control arm bushings. I simply tightened the control arm bushing bolts and the slop went away. Hopefully you will be so lucky... > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf > Of Jeffrey R > Sent: Saturday, March 20, 1999 3:10 PM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Clunk up front when starting from dead stop > > > When starting from a dead stop there is a clunk which seems to be coming > from the passenger front wheel/suspension area. A preliminary > look both on the > ground and jacked up did not reveal any glaring problems. > > I understand the torsion bar could be suspect. Is there a trick to > investigating this. It appears fine, but I understand a crack can be > ellusive. (I have a 2-wheel drive 83.5 Westy) > > TIA > Jeff > 83.5 Westy > NYC > |
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