The front end was completed disassembed today. The torsion arms, torsion bars, steering box, tie rods, and spindles have been removed. So now it is just down to the frame. It will need a lot of cleaning as it is covered in dirt, and it has some pretty severe rust damage as was seen in the previous blog.

I put in a pretty big order with one of the VW parts suppliers out there for just about everything I would need. I am going to replace: Ball Joints, Tie Rods, Seals, Spindles, Shocks & more. One kink I found while taking it all apart was in the brakes! One of the hubs is seized up or stuck pretty good.

These cars have 4 drums on all the wheels, and personally I hate the idea of having to rebuild wheel cylinders and bearings.. plus the spindles look horrible.. so disk brakes will be in the future!