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Re: [T3] Caster angle and Wedgies!!



Jaime Gurrola wrote:

> Jim, I have to agree with Keith on this one:
>
> Caster is lost anytime a car is lowered.  Look at the angle that  a line
> drawn between the two ball joints make at a given ride height.  When the
> lower arm is "turned" on the torsion beam to lower it it affects the
> angle that the lower ball joint is at.  The line  is now closer to 90
> degrees than it was before the torsion arm was "turned".  The principle
> is exaclty the same as in Beetle front end lowering.

This goes only fi the car is lowered in the front only! If the car is
lowered as much in the rear as in the front, I can not see why the caster
should have become altered? It doesn't make sense to me.

PerL
73 Variant L

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