Lowering your Swing Axle
In this article, I would like to discuss the pros and cons of lowering your swing axle. What is a swing axle? Swing axles came in the early Bugs, Ghias, Type 3s up to 1968 and Buses up to 1967.
The good news about swing axles is they’re strong. The bad news is they only have one swivel point per side, so the rear tire goes up and down at a radical angle. From the factory, the angle was set so, just sitting, the bottom of the tires were slightly in. That
