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When judging alignment specs, don't sweat 0.1deg. Manufacturing tolerances are such that 0.1deg is better than the factory would have done originally. The tires themselves aren't made so exactly that 0.1deg is going to make a difference. Even Porsche specifies side-to-side camber only has to be within 20 minutes of each other, or 0.32 degrees. If the "pull" can be felt in the steering, and is more pronounced under braking, that's usually a sign camber isn't the same side-to-side, and it has to be WAY off for it to be felt much (like off a whole degree). If the pull is slight, and can 't really be felt in the steering on or off the gas, then it MAY be a slight camber adjustment, or it could simply be a tire issue. Try swapping the front tires side-to-side and see if the pull changes. --- Everett Barnes <everettb@thesamba.com> wrote: > I took my '63 to get aligned on Friday and this > morning. > > On Friday, I explained how to align it and they > understood. When I came to > pick it up, they reported the toe in was way off so > they set that. They did > not set the camber because he thought the adjustment > screws might be frozen > because the tie rods were quite hard to adjust. I > insisted they adjust it > per the owner's manual specs and brought it back > today. > > Today they set everything up per the specs and now > it pulls left! > > I drove home because I lost confidence in their > abilities. > > Questions: > 1. They set the camber to 1.2 degrees on both sides > (from my digital "laser" > alignment printout). The spec. is 1 degree, 20 > minutes so shouldn't that be > 1.3333 degrees? > 2. Same with the toe-in, it's set to .45 degrees. > The spec is 40 minutes so > isn't that .66666 degrees? > > I verified that the bottom ball joints were left > pointing forward per my > instructions. > > The upper left ball joint has the little line > pointing backwards a small > amount. Shouldn't they all generally point in the > forward direction? Can I > just rotate it 180 degrees until I have time to take > it to a better > alignment shop? > > - Everett > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | > mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page ? Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com