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on 28/7/2003 2:05 PM, Chris J Valade at redyouth@juno.com wrote: > 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. I will try to explain how I got that measurement a bit better: With the shock absorber off, and the lower arm hanging loose without the spindle on, I screwed the top shock absorber bolt all the way in, and measured from the top of this bolt, in a straight line, down to the bottom of the lower shock absorber mounting stud that sticks out of the lower torsion arm. When I had mine set to that (stock) height the front was sitting a bit high as well, but that is because the rear suspension on my car has sagged a bit. Yours is probably in the same condition as mine. With the front set at 441mm I was able to get it to sit level, so you might have to set it to somewhere near there, or just reset the back to it's proper height. FWIW the 441mm setting dropped the car by about 3/4" from the 452mm setting. I think getting both sides set exactly the same is more important than getting it exact from front to back because it will affect handling. HTH, Ben Doughney '63 1200 - Ringo '71 1600TL '65 1500N - Val http://members.tripod.com/~superkafer/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org