Did you use an inclinometer (magnetically attached angle guage) to set your arm?? Or went with floor to arm measurements. The BBB has a great section. Eric 62 Ghia 68 Bug both verts
----- Original Message ----- From: No Quarter Date: Saturday, January 12, 2008 2:05 pm Subject: Re: [vintagvw] spring plate bushing..Part 2 (sorry no part 3 - it was a duplicate so no worries) To: Air-Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: NQ Torsions Part 3 (I'm done!) > Date: Monday, June 08, 1998 12:58 PM > > Trying to find pts1&2... > > Jay > > ************************* > > > What a relief! I finally got the rear end of Li'l Red right > where I wanted > it. It took a lot of doing and redoing but I finally got his > ride height > to sit slightly above level at empty so that with a load, he'll > be leveled > out. > > I ended up assembling and disassembling the passenger side > suspension a > total of 4 times, over 2 days, and a total of about 5 hours. I > was getting > better at it each time though. :-) What *REALLY" helped me is > that I took > an awl and inscribed the initial relaxed position of the spring > plate on > the piece of metal adjacent to the spring plate (the piece > integral with > the lower stop). Then I made another mark at my new setting > (which was > still too low) and I made yet another mark at my too high > setting. I > finally knew about where I had to dial in the relaxed position > of the > torsion bar (~1/8" below my 2nd mark and 1/8" above my 3rd > mark.) I again > put a reference mark with a black marker on the very top of the > torsionbar. A change of one inner spline is noticeable (enough > to make the mark > obviously move from it's original position if you're looking > close enough.) > I spent about 30 minutes just playing with the torsion - 1 > inner turn up, > 2 outer turns down. Too high. Hmmm. One more inner up, 1 > outer down, too > low. I went on and on and on like this until the the torsion > fell within > those 2 previously mentioned marks. > > The chain under the jack trick works so awesome! It is one > giant step > towards getting this repair into the hands of the common man. > One must > still be careful when working with torsions under tension, but > this job is > a lot easier than I think the list has let on to. Of course I > have air > tools that help me out but I don't see any reason why one should > avoid this > kind of adjustment because of "what might happen.?" > > I'll post more details later but I finally have Li'l Red at a nice > stance.... > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > vintagvw site list > [email protected] > http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw > _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
