From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: NQ Torsions Part 3 (I'm done!) Date: Monday, June 08, 1998 12:58 PM
Trying to find pts1&2... Jay ************************* What a relief! I finally got the rear end of Li'l Red right where I wanted it. It took a lot of doing and redoing but I finally got his ride height to sit slightly above level at empty so that with a load, he'll be leveled out. I ended up assembling and disassembling the passenger side suspension a total of 4 times, over 2 days, and a total of about 5 hours. I was getting better at it each time though. :-) What *REALLY" helped me is that I took an awl and inscribed the initial relaxed position of the spring plate on the piece of metal adjacent to the spring plate (the piece integral with the lower stop). Then I made another mark at my new setting (which was still too low) and I made yet another mark at my too high setting. I finally knew about where I had to dial in the relaxed position of the torsion bar (~1/8" below my 2nd mark and 1/8" above my 3rd mark.) I again put a reference mark with a black marker on the very top of the torsion bar. A change of one inner spline is noticeable (enough to make the mark obviously move from it's original position if you're looking close enough.) I spent about 30 minutes just playing with the torsion - 1 inner turn up, 2 outer turns down. Too high. Hmmm. One more inner up, 1 outer down, too low. I went on and on and on like this until the the torsion fell within those 2 previously mentioned marks. The chain under the jack trick works so awesome! It is one giant step towards getting this repair into the hands of the common man. One must still be careful when working with torsions under tension, but this job is a lot easier than I think the list has let on to. Of course I have air tools that help me out but I don't see any reason why one should avoid this kind of adjustment because of "what might happen.?" I'll post more details later but I finally have Li'l Red at a nice stance.... Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
