Newbie to Aircooled, Looking for suspension info Handling!

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Originally Posted by Mysticle31

That article is about regular beetles though?

I'm curious, how does a torsion bar rear end work? There is a coil spring there right?

nope. there is a spring plate attached to the trailing arm. the inside of the spring plate tub (which slides into the torsion tube) is splined and the torsion bar is inserted into the spring plate on one side, rides through the torsion tube and slides into a splined section of the torsion tube on the inboard side. how's that for a run on sentence? the torsion bar then twists between the splined sides to provide the needed tension to push the susension down. the downward travel is limited by a stop for the spring plate on the lower edge of the shock tower. hopefully that made sense.