[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [New Search]
On 20 Mar 2005 at 20:31, Craig Webb wrote: > In response to Jim's points: > > >1) so much rust that metal has been removed weakening the bar. > I took 'em apart so that I could get in there and make sure there was no > rust (particularly the front axle) - There was no serious rust Okay. > >2) a crack in the bar that means that it can twist a lot at that one point. > The bars were ok before the car came to pieces. They also went back on the > correct side. You might not have noticed a problem beforehand, although I understand that this is unlikely. I had overlooked the possibility of swapping bars from side to side; that would certainly make for some problems. > >3) incorrect bar of smaller diameter on one side > I took them out, stored them and put them back, so unlikely Okay, so that just leaves us with the likely hood that some kind of mistake was made in the setup angles. > I'll measure my wheel arch dims and post them up. From memory, (standing at > the back of the car and looking forwards), the left hand side is just over > an inch higher than the right at the back and front. Another perhaps more > worrying thing is that the rear left hand wheel seems to have more camber > than the other side, the wheel tucks in towards the top of the car, almost > like a lowered swing axle (this is a 1972, IRS). I could make sense of this > if the left hand side was the lowest, but how can the wheel do that and > still be an inch higher than the right? Any chance that some of the rubber bushings between the body and the subframes are missing, allowing the subframe to be sitting tilted with respect to the body? Also, is it possible that there's something bent/deformed on the body that makes it appear that the whole thing is tilted? Otherwise we're back to the thought that you slipped up when setting the angles the first time thru. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~