[T3] Axel Beam...

[Mike Fisher]

My square is lowered 2 inner splines & has 185X60X15 tires on the front.
It is 3.5" to the beam, but doesn't drag at all.

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:
>
> On 11 Dec 2014 at 4:17, J. Jonik wrote:
>
> > How high should front axle beam be above street level?   And, if too
> > low....where to look for reasons why, and how to fix?  Should torsion
> > bars be set a notch or two differently?
>
> Okay, I went out and measured from the ground up to the middle of the
> lower edge of my front axle beam: stock '73 car and tires, but the
> car may have settled over time. Still, it's pretty close.
>
> I get almost exactly 8". (You owe me: It's 22 F outside and there's
> snow on the ground, ;-) but none under the car.)
>
> The torsion bars are adjusted in small amounts by moving one spline
> forward and one spline backwards. The inner and outer splines have
> different numbers of teeth. Doing it this way gives the ability to
> make small adjustments. Moving one tooth on one end only makes a
> large change, which is not what you're after if you're trying to dial
> in your front end. The actual process is nicely laid out in the
> Bentley, but that requires a tool that only Russ had, and no one
> seems to know where that one went.
>
> > Or is this about the car bending in half because of body rust or
> something?
>
> If you have that problem, you should be able to see it coming apart
> underneath. It would be obvious. This really isn't anything that
> happens to our cars, but I know someone who used to drive old Saabs
> who that happened to. His first clue was when he noticed that his
> headlight beams tipped up when he accelerated at night. Pulling up
> the carpet between the front seats and the pedals revealed a crack
> that ran completely across the car, side to side. The roof was the
> only thing holding the 2 halves of the car together. He fixed it with
> some long straps and turnbuckles welded underneath the car.
>
> That problem doesn't happen to our cars because our tunnel is quite
> beefy. The old Saab floor pan was much like our pan, but without the
> tunnel.
>
>
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