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Hey folks! Great you're watching again

Last time you've seen I've shortened the buggy

Today I will focus on the rear side

A lot improvements can be done

This is too low

By accident it is a beetle rear axle with torsion springs

If I'm correct it can be easy raised

Let's see if that's true

We need to get rid of that shock absorber, see;

That mount is below the wishbone

We don't want that!

That's ground clearance we need

I'm going to take that absorber off.. and that;

Hoppetay, cut it away

Absorber is gone

and you see, there's no coil spring

That's because this is a rear axle of a beetle

Those have torsion springs

A torsion spring is a rod which gets twisted

That torsion rod is in here

There, overhere are small teeth

You can't see it proper now

But you can see it when I take it apart

It's twisted on this side by the suspension arm

in the middle it's connected to the car

So if the suspension is compressed the rod becomes..

twisted like this

We can adjust it because of those teeth

I can take it apart

Lower the suspension arm

Install it again

and then it's adjusted

and then it's raised

That's it!

The torsion spring, see;

On this side it's fixed to the car

and this is where the wheel is

and if the suspension is compressed, this rod is twisted

you see, there are teeth

so you can adjust it some teeth

and it can be raised

Officialy you should put some markings on there

and do this very careful, but...

I don't care, we just adjust it some teeth

and let's see what happens.. soooo

It has to become high! I guess like this

That's impossible!

I think this is nice

!?

I think we can add some teeth

It's a bit raised, but not enough

It's all apart again, something else is going on!

See, there's a pawl

and that collides with my suspension arm

It can't be raised, the arm will rest on there

That was the bang we heard when I put it on the ground

The arm jumped back in position

Not good!

I cut a gap in that arm!

Let's see.. I think it still will be compressed a lot

It's higher than the other side

And if I raise the other side, this side will go up too, I guess

Look at that!

Both sides raised!

That's makes a difference! Excellent!

But.. yeah

These ones aren't installed

shock absorbers

See! The dancing car

We need to install those next time

But I think we did some nice improvement

in comparison with what it was

It's getting dark, the day is over..

I put my tools away

Now it's becoming time to mount some serious tires

We can't do anything offroad like this

Hey folks! Thanks for watching. See you next time!

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