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<x-charset ISO-8859-1>on 11/10/2002 4:34 PM, Everett Barnes at everettb@thesamba.com wrote: > 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? After I had my ball joints out to replace the boots I roughly re-aligned them myself. Using a spirit level and a square protractor against two lug bolts (wheel on and car on the ground) I was able to line up the spirit level with 1.5 degrees on the protractor (the actual spec is 1? 20 minutes) and get it near enough. This is positive camber so the tops of the wheels need to be sticking out further than the bottom. The bottom ball joints need to stay pointing forwards at all times, so only use the top ones to adjust it. Using the spirit level on the wheel while turning the upper ball joint will give you an idea of which way to turn it to make the adjustment. Won't the car be all right to drive 1/2 a mile without any trouble? Ben Doughney '75 1200L '63 1200 - Ringo '71 1600TL http://members.tripod.com/~superkafer/ ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ </x-charset>