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On 4 Jun 2004 at 7:23, Schlegel, Richard wrote: > I am going to try to attempt raising our car up a little. Are there any > special tools I am going to need? I've done this years ago on a bug. I > have saved some of your tutorials and it doesn't seem like it will take > too long. Fronts are a lot easier than rears. Much depends on how rusted together things are. West coast folks don't seem to encounter much of a problem with this, however. Raising is harder than lowering because you have to preload the torsion bars more. The hardest part, and probably the most important, is to get the 2 sides equally high. VW had a very expensive and special angle gauge to get this right. You may need to rig up something to preload the torsion bars while you slip things together once you get the angles right. Lowering is easier (up to a point) because there's less preload involved, and people who are lowering generally tend to ignore the details of getting the angles all right. -- Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org