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Ben, Jim, et. al. I thought I had the angle of the lower torsion arm, then when I had it all put together and flat on the ground I immediately thought "it looks too high." Turns out I misread how you (Ben) got 452mm and so I am probably off by 2-5mm, but would this result in the front sitting roughly 1" higher than the back? I'm going to adjust it as you said tomorrow and see how that comes out. After that I've got to adjust camber and toe in and I'm done. With my brakes I replaced the horribly deteriorated seal on both calipers (only the inner one on both oddly), changed the pads (it turns out I didn't harm the piston, thankfully), bleed the front brakes, and adjusted the rear brakes. All is well and I'm quite satisfied, although I won't know the final results until I get to go for a test drive. But based on the condition of the calipers and brake disc I think I will need to replace them it once I have the money--a lot of rust (mostly minor surface rust), and odd blue and red goo on the old brake pads and pistons, tons of dirt and dust, corrosion, etc.. Thanks for the offer though Jim. Besides that I just have to finish up installing my new exhaust, and the engine and front suspension are ready to go. Since I had the bulk of the exhaust on and just haven't installed the fresh air tubing and all that necessary for the heaters I decided to start her up and adjust the idle with my new AAR--that's when I hit a brick wall (not literally). She wouldn't start. Because of experience I assumed nothing and realized it could be anything, so I checked the coil--got spark. Then I thought it may be that its not getting any or enough fuel, so I listened for the fuel pump--nothing. Fearing that this just installed and barely used one had died I ran it directly from the car battery and I did get a hum, could hear everything I believe I should. Tried again to listen to it with no success--must be electrical. Further, I must have fucked something up while fiddling with minor electrical things. I went through looking at the FP relays and found two things I had done--a ground strap was off, two wires were in opposite spots (85 and 86 and the secondary fuel pump relay under the dash--would switching them and then starting the car blow/burn/ruin/etc. anything?). After correcting this I still got no success. It could be a bad wire, but I don't see any signs of it and besides the wire harness is only 3 or so years old (doesn't mean anything really, I know). The thing I fear about the electrical system in this car is that it was installed by the same guy who put regular bolts in to hold the ball joints, who removed the oil bath air filter and installed cheap generic filters, and so much else--who knows what I'll find! So, with that, any ideas, suggestions, on what I should do, check, etc.? Tomorrow I'm going to read through Muir and try a hand at what he says, then take a look at my Chilton's and Bentley's in more depth to seek for suggestions. I'm also going to search for loose/disconnected connections, etc. I'm worried about this since the CD player stopped working at one point, then started up by pushing the wiring around at random. The one wire I've found with no connection was attached to a ground post to the left of the glove box; it was a single gold/brown wire about 10" or 12" long. Seems Rosie isn't satisfied with me learning about the front suspension, engine, and brake system...now she wants me to learn her wiring! Eh, better in the long run I suppose. Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Christopher J. Valade ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org