Does rear axle from '81 Rabbit fit '81 Scirocco?

[drew@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (Drew MacPherson)]

Your left kidney is safe - the axles are interchangeable, although if you 
can find a donor from an A1 Jetta you'll get one pre-drilled for a 
swaybar, with an 18mm one already installed, unless it's a GLI, in which 
case it will be a 20,5mm bar (same as Mk2 Scirocco 8V)

And who says that a diesel doesn't need a rear sway bar?????? :)

Drew (84 Wolfsburg TurboDiesel Scirocco)


On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Dan Bubb wrote:

> ETKA lists the 81 Rabbit as having the same rear axle beam as an 84 Scirocco
> which is kind of suprising since the 84 Scirocco axle has holes for the rear
> sway bar that was never installed on an 81 Rabbit (at least the US 81
> Rabbit). Unfortunetly, my ETKA doesn't list parts for earlier Sciroccos.
> I'd bet my left ...... that all the A1 chassis (all Rabbit, all Sciroccos)
> rear beam axles are the same with the possible exception of the swaybar
> holes which are easy to add if your car has had a rear swaybar retrofitted.
> (Which, of course, it wouldn't need with a diesel engine ;^)
> Dan
>