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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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