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Mauro Cattan
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« on: September 14, 2006, 19:16:55 pm »
Hi guys,
I saw on Otto Bros blog these axles. I had never seen it before. Someone know anything about that?





Thanks Mauro
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Zach Gomulka
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« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2006, 19:59:44 pm »
That's a Folts swing axle conversion for installing a late type 2 bus trans into a bug. Very hard to break. Many serious racers over here in the states use that set up.
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Mauro Cattan
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« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2006, 20:35:59 pm »
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Folts swing axle conversion

mmmmm yeah!!!!!  It's a begin, now I can research something on www. Mine friend Fabio would like to make that conversion. He have the bus gearbox and the Oval's pan and he does not want to renounce to the fascination of the springplate



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« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2006, 21:08:58 pm »
That's not a Dave Folts kit. Maybe they made their own version of it......
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« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2006, 21:36:44 pm »
It isnt??? It sure looks like the same thing that is on my friends '68...
I found this pic on thesamba of a Folts kit...

http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/261815.jpg
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Mauro Cattan
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« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2006, 18:07:55 pm »
Ok, I have found it at Steve's Shop in Belgium Cool


Thanks guys...........this forum is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!




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