Aircooled VW South Africa

OK, so I have some dilemmas...

1. I have a shell which will soon be picked up...it's flat on the ground, on veld-type terrain. With the exception of the doors and hatch, there is nothing in, under, or on it, which gives you an idea of the expected weight I'm working with. I'm told that a Kombi shell without doors is approximately 500 lbs.

Any bright ideas on how to get this onto a trailer? Tresels? Jacks? Slide it with a block 'n tackle?

Ideally it needs to find its way on to the trailer with as little damage as possible.

2. I have a complete 'baywindow'...off of which I need the suspension. The body is shot so damage is not a worry. What can, will be stripped from it anyways.

Any bright ideas on how best to get the suspension?

The bus will need to be moved from it's current location afterwards, sooo...my idea was to take some mates, roll it into the open, push it onto its side, and then dismantle the suspension before calling the scrap brigade to take it way with a truck equipped with a hoist. Opinions?

3. The shell...will be stored at a friend's place at which he has a hydraulic car lift...but it cannot go straight onto there due to various reasons.

How best to store the shell, seeing as it has no suspension on it now, and needs to be lifted again in the near future?Tresels all around?

...and finally, any advice, or knowledge of how long approximately it would take to fit early bay suspension to a splittie? A day? A weekend? More?

The chassis will be cleaned up later, but it needs the suspension fitted asap in order to get it mobile, and because the person I want to fit it will have to be ferried out there.

*whew!*

N.

Nic, to fit suspension to a bus is no huge deal, we fitted the front suspension on my bus in about a hour and fitted a rear gearbox with sideshafts in about another 2-3 hours. Saterday morning and it was on wheels..........get a wheely jack and get a few guys to lift up the front while you get the jack underneath and then jack syands in order to get the suspension on.

Play your cards right and you're looking at a saterday morning with the help of 2-3 people.

IRS rear end of Straight axle???

Hey Gary,

Thanks for the info.

I'm fitting early bay suspension to a splittie shell.

The front is bolt-on, which will give me disc mounts, however, the rear needs some welding afaik.

The rear is IRS.

I know the owner of the bay wants the engine - so I'm hoping the gearbox comes my way, which will make things that much easier for me.

We'll try the jack idea, but I'll have to dig out the sand first and place a thick board or something under there to hold the jack.

UPDATE: A Kombi shell with doors is apparently approx. 800 lbs.

Thanks, N.