hey brother, i'll give you an academy award if you can show me how to get the upper Torsion arm back in, i tried for 2 hours but to no avail, thanks John
@@kieranjohnston7202 awww, bless ya mate, thanks for getting back. I worked it out in the end, there are large Grub Screws and Locking Nuts that compresses the centre of the torsion springs inside the Axles. These can be undone from under the van, once i loosened the top one it all slotted back into place. Cheers John
@@jolive3743 I'm sure you figured out the individual steel bars need to be arranged in a triangular pattern to fit into the arm. That is why loosening the center bolt relaxes the tension and helps to let them sit naturally into place. But that is not always the case. Any time i have had problems I gently apply pressure on the arm while slowly rotating it back and forth to try to get the plates to fall into there proper position, if they do you should feel the arm slightly move in wards, then you can tap on it. That of course may not work if the plates have any space between them, I have read of others wrapping tape around the plates to keep them in their proper position while they get the arm started. I have never had to do this but i understand the theory behind it. Good luck. Let me know how things turn out!
@@kieranjohnston7202 hi mate. I tried the tape method to no avail, so tightened the pinch bolt in the Axle back up and then ground the bottom edge of the rods at an angle so they slipped over the shoulder on the insides of the Torsion Arms and they both went in like Butter.......i should be feeling quite smug with my hack but i think i'll wait till i've tested it before celebrating. Thanks though mate, nobody else even tried to help......busy world
you are the only one that shows how to do this and not even the manuals show it. Big thank you!!!!!
Thanks glad it was useful!
Cheers mate very informative these old veedubs are a frigging nightmare
Thanks Hope it was helpfull
Thanks a lot I've been looking all over for information about this very thing
Thanx just bought a 1978, T2 so checking everything. Now i know how these torsion arms work !!
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Brilliant. Exactly the explanation I needed. Thank you.
thanks, I was struggling..
Thanks! This was very helpful and very timely. Cheers
Great to hear!
Found this video just in time 👌
Brilliant dude, and graciously humble. Well done.
Thanks, have a great day
Thanks for the video. I wanted to check, so didn't damage it.
Thank you from algeria
Very helpful video, thank you very much! 👍
Nice. Just needed something like this to verify I wasn't f'n it up . thought pressure would be gone after bump stop removal.
This was very helpful! Thank you for uploading it!
Glad it was helpful!
O by the way your a movie star in my book
Thank again big time
Awesome job!
Thank you! Cheers!
Thanks for sharing, just got stuck with the upper one, great info 👍
Glad it helped
Very good helpful
This is the bees knees, thank you sir
Bees knees EH! Can't top that! Thanks son
Thank you!
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My pleasure!
hey brother, i'll give you an academy award if you can show me how to get the upper Torsion arm back in, i tried for 2 hours but to no avail, thanks John
Hi John, what seems to be the problem, what is causing your headache?
@@kieranjohnston7202 awww, bless ya mate, thanks for getting back.
I worked it out in the end, there are large Grub Screws and Locking Nuts that compresses the centre of the torsion springs inside the Axles. These can be undone from under the van, once i loosened the top one it all slotted back into place. Cheers John
@@kieranjohnston7202 i spoke too soon Kieran, the other side won't go in now, do you have any tips?
@@jolive3743 I'm sure you figured out the individual steel bars need to be arranged in a triangular pattern to fit into the arm. That is why loosening the center bolt relaxes the tension and helps to let them sit naturally into place. But that is not always the case. Any time i have had problems I gently apply pressure on the arm while slowly rotating it back and forth to try to get the plates to fall into there proper position, if they do you should feel the arm slightly move in wards, then you can tap on it. That of course may not work if the plates have any space between them, I have read of others wrapping tape around the plates to keep them in their proper position while they get the arm started. I have never had to do this but i understand the theory behind it. Good luck. Let me know how things turn out!
@@kieranjohnston7202 hi mate.
I tried the tape method to no avail, so tightened the pinch bolt in the Axle back up and then ground the bottom edge of the rods at an angle so they slipped over the shoulder on the insides of the Torsion Arms and they both went in like Butter.......i should be feeling quite smug with my hack but i think i'll wait till i've tested it before celebrating.
Thanks though mate, nobody else even tried to help......busy world
It helped, thanks!
Glad it helped!
Perfect men 👍
Thank you!