[T3] Alignment

[Keith Park]

gabriel 49307
you want to be able to slide your hand in the top of the rear wheel well
arch and have it slide right over the top of a stock size tire, or maybe
have to angle your hand up just a bit.

Keith


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-----Original Message-----
From: type3-vwtype3.org [mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org]
On Behalf Of Daniel Nohejl
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2016 2:37 PM
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] Alignment

Keith, what is the part number of the Gabriel shock? I'm curious to see if
that'd work. 

Rather than just eyeing it up, is there a measurement one can take to see if
the rear is sagging too low and then if it's even side-to-side? Like a
measurement from the apex of the curve of the outside of the wheel well to
the ground or something? 


Daniel



> On Nov 24, 2016, at 1:37 PM, dlstiefel <dlstiefel at dekalbk12.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2016-11-24 08:39, Daniel Nohejl wrote:
>>> The spring plate IS the trailing arm.
>> I'm confused because I've always seen this part referred to as the
>> trailing arm and/or the diagonal arm
>> http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/1216876.jpg
> 
> Well I guess I've been mispronouncing this for 30 something years. I've
always called what you have a picture of a trailing are and what fits on the
end of the torsion bar and bolts to the trailing arm the spring plate. It's
been so long not sure where I got those terms but I think it was from the
old Clements repair manual I had for the fastback back in high school.
> -- 
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