Before my VS I never had a swingaxle VW before. I recall replacing the rubber stops in my IRS equipped VW's. As I examined Bentley's manual from '66 to '69 I noticed that swingaxles are supposed to also have the rubber stops. Yesterday I crawled under my VS and noticed that my car doesn't have them. Of course it does have the plates where the stops hit. The book shows some sort of a bracket that is mounted on top of the spring plates (See Fig. 5 on Page 7 of the Trans & Rear Axle section)that my car doesn't have. How is this bracket attached to the spring plates? Would I be able to get new replacements to retrofit my car? Somehow I think that the car, even though disguised as a Porsche, should retain as much of the original design features of the Bug as possible to function properly. I guess factory engineers don't work in vain. Of course I'm talking about pan based VW cars. Any thoughts? Thanks!!
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