[T3] Car Body Questions....

[Dave Hall]

The wheel can rub on full lock - usually when going backwards.  The Type 3
never had separate steering lock stops unlike the Beetle - it used the front
axle components.

The steering knuckle wears a groove against the lower torsion arm.  VW made
a plate that is bolted round the torsion arm to give more clearance to the
tyre.  It's parts 8-12 on the front axle parts diagram at
http://home.clara.net/hallvw/type3/T3pbo/T3pb4-6.htm .

If it only happens under those special circumstances at low speed parking
manoeuvres, it isn't really a problem, but I had to fabricate a bracket to
satisfy some picky MoT testers in the UK.  The pattern I used is like a
plane wing (think of a DC3) folded round the torsion arm with a tab sticking
out the front to bend over to locate it, and two holes for a pinch-bolt.

Keep the rust in check as much as you can!

Dave
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
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Sent: 07 June 2013 00:45
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Subject: [T3] Car Body Questions....

1-   Old plastic at the (never-used) windshield squirt nozzle broke apart
just with a car washing rag wipe.  But, I have two spare parts cars with
intact nozzles.   What's the trick to taking them off, in one piece, and
installing?

2-  Driver side door needs a little shoulder to open...as if door frame is a
bit out of whack.
Hood springs open with perhaps a bit too much of a Boinngg.
Once I heard right front wheel, while turned hard in a parking moment,
actually rub the wheel well side.
 When gas tank was out, there was a strip of eaten out metal just below
where the tank sits. How the heck did THAT area get rusty?  And, is that
area a part of car structure....you know...keeping the front end in line
with the rest of the car?

Does this mean that rust is eating the structure of the car?  The arms that
hold the axle beam are ok...unlike in a now dead parts car.   That one sank
lower and lower in the front and became unfixable.

What body metal (besides axle beam holding arms and the underneath front to
back supports) are crucial to keep a squareback sitting up as high in front
as it should be?

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