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<x-charset Windows-1252>As you may remember, I was having problems with my driver's front wheel getting really hot after only a drive around the block. The brakes were not locking up, in fact when I jacked the car up, the wheel spun normally on both the driver's and passenger sides. Well, I wasn't sure what was going on so I replaced the driver's front brakes with some NOS wheel cylinders (one from a listee, thanks!). Reassembled, same problem. I'm now convinced that the camber and toe-in are just plain wayyyyy off. The wheel spins fine in the air (unloaded) but is very restricted while under load. The alignment was always a bit off since I bought the Squareback and today I looked underneath to check things out. The lower ball joints adjustment things were not pointing forward so I straightened them out just to see if that would do anything. Nope. In fact, I think it's worse now. After I turned them straight, I got to thinking, how do you know how much in or out the bottoms should be adjusted? Did I even turn them the right way? Or does it even matter, they just need to be straight ahead? I made an appt. for an alignment on Monday at a shop about 1/2 a mile from my house so I could drive there really slow but if it's possible for me to adjust things so I can drive normally in case I might screw something up, that would be great... Should the alignment shop only be adjusting the upper ball joints or can they adjust both upper and lower ball joints as long as the bottom is left pointing straight? I need to be schooled in Type 3 alignment. -- Everett Barnes '63 Squareback - victim of a past mechanic ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ </x-charset>