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Shortening the beetle pan
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:23 pm
by dlagerwall
Hi guys,
I was given a 1600, 74 Beetle. The body was rotten so I've organised a fibreglass jeep body to replace my rusty Beetle one. I now have to shorten the pan to get it to fit the fibreglass body.
Does anyone who has done this before have any advice on shortening the pan for a complete novice?
Don
Re: Shortening the beetle pan
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:32 pm
by Pine
Hi Don
Welcome to ACVWSA, have a look at
http://www.meyersmanx.com/garage/garage_shorten_p1.htm for complete instructions on shortening a pan.
Please introduce yourself in the appropiate thread, as per your welcoming e-mail
Re: Shortening the beetle pan
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:05 am
by BARON
There was a "How To Build A Beach Buggy " manual on the Volkspares site at one time showing you how and where to cut
The one in red gives you a stronger chassis the a straight across cut like in the bottom picture ( stresses work in dfferent directions)
cheers baron
Re: Shortening the beetle pan
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:22 am
by Pine
IMPI has an official VWAG booklet on shortening the VW chassis. I scanned it a few years ago, and it was published on TheSamba here
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/man ... buggy.phpa
This article from the 'Guthe Fart' magazine might also help (hope your German is not too rusted!):
Re: Shortening the beetle pan
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:39 pm
by IMPI
Please note
Only mig or tig welding allowed these days
gas welding wont cut it
Armand
Re: Shortening the beetle pan
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 3:18 pm
by ZeroAxe
The link is fixed...... (removed an "A")
Re: Shortening the beetle pan
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:47 pm
by Ron&Gill
BARON wrote:There was a "How To Build A Beach Buggy " manual on the Volkspares site at one time showing you how and where to cut
The one in red gives you a stronger chassis the a straight across cut like in the bottom picture ( stresses work in dfferent directions)
cheers baron
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