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Greetings from Croatia. Well, folks, I took the list's advice and Jim's sage wisdom from last year and finally dove into the front suspension of my '65 Variant. I cowered away from tackling the front suspension ever since we moved to Croatia only because our T3 is the ONLY one on the roads here. I thought that if I screwed something up, there would be no one on site to help me. However, armed with Bentley and your responses, I delved into the underworld of front end looseness. I took apart the upper torsion bars to get at the plastic/metal axial play rings (for lack of a better term -- Bentley is still in the garage). I replaced the bearings last year and was unable to get rid of the looseness then. That led me to believe that I needed to at least check if not replace the axial rings on the upper torsion rod. I used some sturdy GI rope to make a tourniquet used to ease the top torsion arms out of the balljoint sockets. That was the only part that worried me. After getting it all apart, I cleaned the upper torsion arms, cleaned off the unscathed torsion bar, pried out the axial play rings which were worn below specification and installed the new ones. I inspected the bearings and gave it a once over before reinstalling everything and adjusting the axial play ala Bentley. Voila! The lateral play that used to plague my T3 is now a thing of the past. Even though I have fixed/replaced everything else on that car, I was always afraid of attacking the front suspension. It no longer holds the dark secrets that I thought it once did. All the best and thanks again for the encouragement. John Kowalski Zagreb, Croatia '65 Variant '72 Cabrio (Franjo) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe