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On 13 Mar 2004 at 20:31, BOB2TYPE3S@aol.com wrote: > The funny thing that happens though, is that as you raise the lower > arm up, from 1 spline to 2 splines is the amount of degrees changed is > actually less (using the outer as a reference). I found that the first > spline moved it 10 degrees, but the second spline only moved it 4 > more. So this starts becoming confusing, right?? There's no way around the fact that the math has to work right in the end, but in the meantime I suspect that the problem you saw was due to rust/dirt that gets in the splines and keeps them from mating perfectly. This is probably much more of a problem in rust belt cars like ours. By necessity, there must be slop in the fit, so there is room for dirt to fall in there and introduce some uncertainty. My guess is that this goes away; after driving for awhile, assuming the dirt might get pulverized or work its way out of there. OTOH, I can't explain why both sides repeated so nicely. I checked, the front outside splines have 31 teeth, which works out to 11.61 degrees per tooth. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org