[T3] Alignment

[Keith Park]

I did, it was a HELL of a job!
I carry heavy stuff all the time or have something towing behind that his
heavy, I did it when everything else was apart for the last restoration

Worth it?  Yea... BUT, if you put a set of Gabriel Air Shocks on it you can 
get just about the same effect with a bit stiffer ride.  Put the height
wherever you want and change it for changing loads.

Probably wouldnt do it again unless I were going a total resto.

Keith

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87 Golf  "Winterat"
 
-----Original Message-----
From: type3-vwtype3.org [mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org]
On Behalf Of Daniel Nohejl
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2016 5:48 PM
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] Alignment

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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