[T3] Alignment

[Daniel Nohejl]

I found the numbers for the rear torsion arm angles in the Bentley: 21* 30’ +/- 50’. Has anyone ever bothered with raising up the rear after nearly 48 years of having weight on it? Seems like a lot of dirty and frustrating work. Is it worth the effort?

Daniel


> On Nov 19, 2016, at 3:01 PM, dlstiefel <dlstiefel at dekalbk12.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2016-11-19 11:55, Daniel Nohejl wrote:
>> I seem to recall reading that rear sag changes camber and that
>> reindexing the torsion arms can fix it. Does anyone know how many
>> degrees the rear angle is supposed to be? 23* comes to mind but I
>> don’t know where I got that from.
>> Also, I got an alignment about 5 months ago and there was a
>> significant change in rear camber from before to after if you look at
>> this sheet.
>> http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/1526139.jpg
>> I’m not sure if the toe adjustment has any effect on camber or if they
>> had the tires filled to the wrong pressures or what but the change is
>> there. On the other hand, the passenger rear tire more or less
>> disintegrated 12k miles later so who knows what they did…..
>> http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/1572782.jpg
> 
> We put torsion bars out of a square when we restored it a few years ago so the back sits a little higher than it did before. The tires haven't worn that bad as in that picture yet. I usually run my air pressure about 20 PSI in the front and 28 PSI in the rear. That seems to have worked best for me over the years.
> 
> Dennis
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