Hi from england

fur2nd · Post by **fur2nd** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 12:22 pm

My names matt and stupidly been restoring a late 1965 vw beetle.
Here he is how I found him.

Currently looking like this.

I am really pleased to find this place and I ve had an up hill struggle finding advice on the bug.

Post by **jmartini** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 4:42 am

Hi Matt! Actually from what I can see in the pictures she looks pretty solid. Some of the folks in the forum are experienced in restorations so they should be able to answer questions for you. Best of Luck with the restoration.

fur2nd · Post by **fur2nd** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:58 am

hi john

dont let the photo ful you it was rotten as a pear lol i ll do a build thread in abit

Matt

Blue Baron · Post by **Blue Baron** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 4:06 pm

It looks like the rear end was lowered at some point.

fur2nd · Post by **fur2nd** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 3:01 pm

i think thats my fault, ive put it back wrong any ideas how to get it back to stock height?

Blue Baron · Post by **Blue Baron** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 2:58 pm

I'm purely guessing that you may have gone down one spline on the springplate.

fatalifeaten · Post by **fatalifeaten** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 2:24 pm

Looks like one outer, though tough to tell with the fenders off. They're pretty easy to re-index. You should get yourself an angle finder at your local hardware store, that's really the only way to set the spring plates correctly.