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WTB: Notched Springplates

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:58 pm
by Nafe
Hey Lufters,
I'm just after a set of notched springplates to suit my '65 bug. If anyone has a set lying about, email, reply or shoot me a pm.

Cheers!

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:56 pm
by hertz
Nath,express post yours down, Ill notch em and express them back. No charge.

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:01 pm
by jnr356
go to bunnings and buy a thin cutting disc even cheaper,and quicker

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:58 pm
by Nafe
Thanks fellas, but the splines on my springplates are meshed together with the torsion bars, and I can't find any second hand locally.

I don't know how this could have happened, but I guess they could have come this way after being re-adjusted too many times? Or incorrectly?

So, I'm still on the lookout for some springplates Lufters!

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:05 pm
by hertz
Take em to a mechanic or engineering shop and get em pressed apart. They can be hard to budge.

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:19 pm
by captainvw
I soaked mine with WD40 for a day and still had to hold the torsion in a vice and belt the springplate off with a sledge hammer they will come off,when you put them back together put some grease on the suckers

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:21 pm
by Nafe
I got them out when I took it down one spline, what I'm trying to say is that the teeth are close to becoming stripped.

Excuse my lack of v-dub vocab Josh haha....:oops:

Thanks again.

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:25 pm
by Nafe
Still chasing these springplates, now interested in any stock plates.

Cheers.

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:41 pm
by captainvw
There's a wreckers up here i can get a price for you if ya like i can notch em and send them to ya