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I thought about the caster wedges idea when i decided that the reason my car wandered so badly on the freewway was that i had lowered it a notch. What makes me hesitate to do it is that i don't want to fabricate something and then have it come apart at 70mph! I guess this time i'll let someone else do it and then see what they learn. the best thing, and what i will do when i get some money together, is to buy some lowered spindles to do away with the entire caster/travel/overall geometry business. Merry Christmas. Dan Hoopes '67 Square "Stanley" Provo, Utah (in Chile for the moment, and i saw a Square today!) ----- Original Message ----- From: Jaime Gurrola <jgurrola@earthlink.net> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 7:50 AM Subject: [T3] Caster angle and Wedgies!! > 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. > > Gene Berg, and possibly others, sell "Caster wedges" which are designed > to fit between the Beam and the front bulk head. What they do is "move" > the lower edge of the beam outward toward the front to bring back the > angle that was lost when the car lowered. Mostly drag cras use them > because they offer high speed stability. GET IT!! These kits also came > with longer bolts and on severly lowered cars, one could stack two if > the wedges. This also required slightly longer bolts. > > Given that, I was poking around underneath my Fastback, Inge, to see if > caster wedges would work on Type 3 front beams. With longer bolts, I > think one could fashion something that could work. Has anyone ever > thought about this?? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org > >