This rear bay bag kit is made to go with our air-ride beam, found here.

This is not a job for the novice, but it really is the best way we have found to bag the back of a Bay Window bus. Horseshoe drop plates or 4.5” drop plates are needed to get you low, and this kit will both notch the frame for your axles and give you UP & DOWN motion.

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(a little trimming of the dust plate, is the exception)

These spindles add a 1/2 inch to your track width, per side.

Approximate 3 week wait.

No core charge any more, this is an out rite price.

These are built out of original German spindles on Wagenswest custom jigs, Quality re-built in the USA

1968-70 spindles are drum — 1971-72 are disk with a 12mm caliper bolt thread
— 1973 -79 are disk with a 14mm caliper bolt thread.

Please understand that we build these kits, in our shop and usually assemble to order – as they come in, and you may have to wait a week or more. If you want to know how long just email us.

Thanks Nate @Wagenswest

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These spindles add a 1/2 inch to your track width, per side.

Approximate 3 week wait.

No core charge any more, this is an out rite price.

These are built out of original German spindles on Wagenswest custom jigs, Quality re-built in the USA

1968-70 spindles are drum — 1971-72 are disk with a 12mm caliper bolt thread
— 1973 -79 are disk with a 14mm caliper bolt thread.

Wagenswest started making these drop spindles many many years before the large companies came along and flooded the market with poor quality imported sketchy junk spindles. We still make them, with attention to quality and geometry, 2 things the other companies seam not to care about. This quality thing, is why Wagenswest has decided to stay small and focus on making parts that work good. We build these spindles in house and typically you can expect a 2 to 3 week wait to get a set after you order. THANK YOU!

Please understand that we build these kits, in our shop and usually assemble to order – as they come in, and you may have to wait a week or more. If you want to know how long just email us.

Thanks Nate @Wagenswest

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Send us your spindles and a copy of your order and we will drop and rebuild them. 

With a 2.5″, 3.5″, 4″, 5″, and 6″ inch drop these are by far the best and hardest to build spindles you can buy for a 1955-67 Volkswagen bus. Built using special jigs, these spindles keep all your stock tie rod geometry while maintaining all the original phenolic pivot bushings.

When we ship these out they are 100% rebuilt with king pins and seals, loaded with grease-zerks ready to install

4″ inch welded drop spindles will fit inside a 14″ inch and bigger wheel. 5″ inch will fit inside a 15″ inch and bigger wheel. 6″ inch will fit inside a 16″ inch and bigger wheel. One more major benefit is that you can install these spindles with stock tie rods and ends so all you need is the spindles!!

3/8 track increase each side

These take 8 -12 weeks, so remember that when ordering! 

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This is a service!

Send us your stock Volkswagen bus spindles and a set of 944 Porsche spindles. With these two sets, we make  Bus/Porsche hybrid dropped spindles. We also rebuild the king pins, on link-pin spindles.

The whole idea is that you will have a set of new  drop spindles that use stock Porsche disc brakes.

Drop heights available are

3″ inch

4″ inch

5″ inch

6″ inch

After selecting the drop height and  placing the order, box and ship us the two core sets of spindles. Also please include a copy your order, that will be sent to your email address.

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  Built in the USA, using special jigs and fixtures exclusive to Wagenswest, with proper alignment and spindle geometry, that won’t be found in other import or copycat brands.

Our drop spindles are year specific, that means these spindles with fit the stock drum brakes found on 1968-70 Volkswagen vans.

Our aftermarket disc brake kits bolt directly to these spindles too.

These dropped spindles will lower the front of your early drum brake, bay window, VW bus, 2.5″inches with out any other modifications, and only have a 3/8″ offset.

These are built out of new material by Wagenswest in Salem Oregon USA

Approximate 5 week wait.

No core charge any more, this is an out rite price.

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Please understand that we build these kits, in our shop and usually assemble to order – as they come in, and you may have to wait a week or more. If you want to know how long just email us.

 Nate @ Wagenswest

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Wagenswest narrowed air ride beam, can be made custom, but come 4″ inches narrowed and utilize two 2500 pound air bags, the bags sit inside the frame rails of the bus. The beam is designed to use the stock narrowed springs in both top and bottom tube, with the top spring being held by an adjuster and the bottom spring supported by the air bags. The ride height and air bag travel is dependent on the adjustable pre-load of the top spring.

Our narrowed air ride beam is labor intensive and the bottom tube is just plum full of goodies that make this thing work awesome!

This Bus narrowed air ride beam includes, air bags and Wagenswest OE Style needle bearings or bushings as well as a new center pin.

Look here for the recommended rear air ride kit for 1955-67 buses.

Look here for the recommended rear air ride kit for 1968-79 buses.

.If you have any questions or are interested in ordering a VW bus air ride beam please email parts@wagenswest.com

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Wagenswest bus beam adjusters are Drop forged out of 4140, with big beefy teeth to insure a solid grip with no slip.

This adjuster fits

Volkswagen bus from beams from 1949-1979. These  are by far the strongest bus beam adjuster that can be found. This is a project for someone that is a a descent welder and prepared to do some drilling, cutting, grinding, smacking and welding. So if you do not weld it is necessary to find someone who does, and show them the how to linked below so they understand what there in for.

These are sold each and you will need 2 of them to do one beam.

HOW TO INSTALL THESE ADJUSTERS.

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High quality and hand built in the USA. This narrowed adjustable beam is for buses from 1955-67. We make them 4″ inch narrowed.

Wagenswest narrowed adjustable beams include, premium bearings, OEM style composite or needle , depending on the year of your bus. Also a new center pin, and a torsion spring narrowing tool.

You will need a set of narrowed tie rods , you can add them to the order , just pick the option below.

All of our narrowed beams come with a 2′ degree rake to help with caster.

No modifications to the bus needed to install, these beams are ready to bolt up!

Most often it is a 4 week wait on us shipping these beams.

We use brand new CNC cut,  machined, and welded steel, to make our beams.

beams come painted black!

GUARANTEED to the Original buyer for the life of the bus if anything should need replaced prematurely send it back we will repair/replace and ship it back no charge!

Understanding why we narrow Volkswagen bus beams.

Volkswagen buses use (truck offsets) wide axles and negative offset wheels . Passenger cars (bugs) were built with narrower axle widths and wider offset wheels.  And aftermarket Volkswagen wheels are built using passenger car or (bug offsets), and we want to use these aftermarket wheels. This is why we narrow beams, to compensate for the track increase.

Reasons to go narrow

After market brakes add positive offset, and a narrowed beam helps with this increased width to make the wheels tuck. Custom geometry for steering and to set the tire in the sweet spot and reduce rubbing tires. From scratch means we can change some things. Like adding torsion spring adjusters, for changing ride height. And we modify the tube geometry, to achieve better handling.

Reason to not go narrow

You don’t want to slam the bus. Or you are using wheels with negative offsets. Or lifting the bus. Or you just don’t fly like that.

Here is a bus guys secret, get 5″ inch drop hybrids + < offset Porsche wheels + stock width beam = slammed (no narrowed beam)

Thanks for looking

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