Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Removing Rear Trailing Arms on VW Bug

This is relatively easy when the axles are already out. Remove the brake lines and let the fluid drain in to a container. You're going to need a 17mm Alan socket for the inner pivot bolt. Remove this next.  
With limited space, I found the easiest thing to do was to put the Alan socket in the bolt, and then put a 17mm box end wrench on the socket to turn the bolt. After this bolt is out, remove the bolts from the spring plate. 
Once these bolts are out, you should be able to drop the arm down and remove it. 

1 comment:

  1. Any tricks to get the pivot bolt out ?? I turned the treads all the way out but the bolt won't slide out ...??

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