[T3] Camber Problems

[Brent Bottolfson]

On 9/13/11 9:55 PM, Jim Adney wrote:
> On 13 Sep 2011 at 21:08, Brent Bottolfson wrote:
>
>> On 9/13/11 5:40 PM, Keith Park wrote:
>>> Easy to tell if the torsion arms are bent on the lower ones, if the bar
>>> doesn't exit the arm in the middle of the circle, the arm is bent, if it
>>> does then your fine.  The same theory applied for the uppers, but the sway
>>> bar will rock back and forth on one end if I recall properly.
>> I'll try that when I take off the control arms.  I'm pretty sure the
>> torsion bars are good, and it's a control arm or spindle that's giving
>> me the problem.
> That's an easy test to do and a good suggestion, as long as the bend
> is between the bearing surfaces. I had been assuming that the arm
> could have been bent in the outer part, but the only bent arm I've
> ever had to deal with was bent inside. Of course, it may well have
> been bent in both areas.
>
>> Today I picked up an entire beam from rotor to rotor.  I bought it to
>> use the control arms and steering knuckles; but, my wife's brakes on her
>> 73 Ghia squeal like crazy no matter what I do and I want to upgrade to
>> Type 3 dual pin brake calipers.  Win-win in my book, now to start
>> cleaning up the parts.
> Do late Ghias use calipers with the larger bolts and wider bolt
> spacing? I didn't know that.
I'm almost certain they fit late model Ghia's.  But, I'll confirm for 
sure when I have some time to take the wheels off and check them out.

Regarding my camber issues:  I took the 'new' beam out of my SUV today 
and put it in the garage.  First thing I noticed was that the long tie 
rod on the right side was straight.  The one on the beam now has a bend 
right in the middle of it.  I didn't have another to compare it to, and 
thought it was there to clear the frame head.  So, now I'm thinking that 
whatever happened to bend the tie rod like that was enough to 
damage/bend something else on that side resulting in my out of whack camber.

-Brent