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<x-charset iso-8859-1>Hi Latest challenge on the '72 squareback restoration is putting the front and rear axles back on the nicely painted floorpan. I'm currently doing the front axle, just about to reinstall the torsion arms. I picked up a better front axle for mine, but unfortunately this meant swapping torsion arms and losing all the settings. Reading the bently book, its all very easy to install with the special vw tool, however, since I have no chance of getting hold of the special tool, how can I go about getting my splines correctly orientated? How about this method: Set the floorpan level. I would do this by using a spirit level on the tunnel hump flat piece by the gear shift aperture. I was then thinking of making up some kind of angle setting device. I can use a cad package to print off a piece of paper with a vertical line and another line at the correct angle setting (39 degrees and a bit - need to check the bently). I would probably stick this piece of paper to a wooden/metal template, that I can align with the torsion bar centre point and the centre of the arm towards the balljoint. I can use a vertical spirit level to get vertical and then rotate the arm on the splines to line it up with the 39' setting. Anyone got any better ideas? My main problem is picking out the true centre of the torsion arm. I was also thinking of a similar idea for the rear. That should be easier because I can measure straight of the spring plates. Cheers Craig ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ </x-charset>