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My suspension was always kind of funky, I thought that bouncing ugly after passing RR tracks was normal for this car and that the " I cannot feel the streering wheel to tire connection " was normal or this kind of car until yesterday. In the past, after reading e-mails about tires not to be inflated to "normal level" I kind of disreguarded this information as bogus because we have radial tires. So I suffered from funky front suspesion since I had my car for over a year . I decided yesterday to deflate my front tires from the usual 32 lbs to 23 lbs. I went further than that and turned my tires to the right and shook the car fron side to side while under the car to observe any loose hardware; well I saw the top arm go in and out pretty well like about almost a .4 of an inch . This seemed really bad to me so I decided to read what this was, (learning experience); I found out that there was an adjustment for that. The adjustment is located on the top passenger side arm. I used two 15mm wrenches for the top bolt and it's lock nut and 13mm for the side bolt on this top right hand arm . After I tightened the side bolt I shook the car again and lossened and tightened until the arm movement was barely noticeable. I did not want to tighten the bolt all the way because that would wear out the outer bushing; Then I tightened and locked the top bolt. This was done without lifting car or removing tire. This changed the feel of my car greatly, it now feels steady like a larger car and not like a skateboard. Very steady and rock solid, the wind does not affect it as much. What I learn from listening to you guys. LEON MARTINEZ martinezl@ftscpac.navy.mil 1969 SQUAREBACK EFI/AUTO SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA ------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitch in! Send your pledge of support! mailto:support@vwtype3.org