Your best shot is going to just get a complete swing arm assembly. Local
wrecking yard should be able to supply it.
I'll take a wild guess and say any 2 wheel drive vanagon from 1980 to 1991
could be a donor for the part.

Stan Wilder

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Irick" <gregi@VWTYPE3.ORG>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 8:48 PM
Subject: Just Bought My First Westy and I'm completely STOKED (long)

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I just bought my '80 Westy and I'm really excited about it.
Unfortunately,
> 2 and a half years ago the PO's daughter was driving it and it had just
> started to rain after a dry spell (you can probably guess where this is
> going).  Well, she comes down 11th ST in Bremerton, WA (which is downhill)
> and makes a left turn onto Warren Ave. (a major street) and spins the
Westy
> around hitting the right rear wheel against the curb hard enough that she
> breaks the stub axle and drops the Westy down onto the right rear backing
> plate (Ouch).  They had the Westy towed home and that is where it has sat
> for the last 2 and a half years.
>
> Now here is my requests, does anyone have a stub axle, an axle nut, and a
> passenger side rear backing plate for an '80 Vanagon?  These are really
the
> only parts I need right away so I can trailer my new Westy home and start
> all of the other work on her that I would like to do before putting her
> back on the road.  Other work that I'm planning on doing to make her road
> worthy again is replacing all rubber fuel lines, replacing the front brake
> pads and rear brake shoes, replacing the rear wheel brake cylinders, and
> replacing the poptop and luggage rack seals,  and replacing both batteries
> (main and accessory).
>
> I also need to replace the tires and wanted to get the lists opinions on
> which tire is the best out of either the 195/75R14 Yokohama Y370 with a D
> load range and the 27X8.5QR14 BFGoodrich All-Terrain T/A KO's with a C
load
> range, which do you think is the better tire.  I plan on using my Westy
for
> camping and fly fishing in the National Forest's and State and National
> Parks in WA, OR, and maybe some camping up in Canada.
>
> As for general condition, she is in pretty good condition.  The poptop
> screen is in great shape with no holes.  The appliances look like they
have
> never been turned on (I think the PO had a clean fetish).  I need to
> replace the rear bumper due to some damage and do a little touch up paint
> work on the rear hatch, but other than that she is a very clean Westy.
>
> Still haven't thought of a name for her yet, I figure that will happen in
> due course of the repairs and driving her around and may not happen until
> the first camping trip.
>
> Sorry for the length but as you can tell I'm pretty excited about my
> purchase.  If any listees are in the Bremerton/Silverdale, WA area give me
> a shout off list and we could get together for coffee/lunch/dinner or
whatever.
>
>
> Greg Irick
> Silverdale, WA
> gregi@vwtype3.org
>
> '65 Notchback with a Britax sliding rag top
> '73 Pro-Street Bug
> '80 Westy
> '88 16V Scirocco (currently for sale)
> '00 Jetta VR6
> (Yes, I have a lot of VW's)