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 zayus
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| posted on December 1st, 2002 at 03:42 PM |
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Positive Camber on Left Front
Hey Hey
The front wheels of my Beetle sit @ different angles. Camber of the right front is perfect, but the left front is sitting at a very noticeable
positive camber angle.
Recently I have really notice that the car tends to pull to the left under heavier braking, and the steering is a little tighter when turning hard
right.
The car - 1966 Beetle.
King pin front end.
Disc brakes
Lowered 3 inches using 2 Avis adjusters.
An alignment hasn't been done on the car for ages. To be honest, the left front has always had a little positive camber, but now that the outside
of the tyre is starting to wear, the positive camber appears more extreme.
So, how is it that the left front wheel sits with positive camber? Is it due to the way the front end has been lowered using Avis adjusters?
Any thoughts?
Zayus
*note I am away from a PC for the next 2 days, so hope I have provided enough information.
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| posted on December 2nd, 2002 at 06:50 AM |
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When the front end was lowered, you should have had the upper and lower trailing arms checked for alignment in the proper VW tooling jig.
I had to go through about 4 or 5 arms to get a good straight set.
VVDS at Campsie has one of these jigs and can check your trailing arms for you.
Another possibility could be the Stub Axle is bent, the L/H one are easer to bend as they have the speedo cable running through the, these can be
checked with a small engineers square on the face of the stub axle
Did you check the bearing wear on the arms where they go into the torsion tubes. these can also wear but more likely it will be BENT trailing arms,
there is NO camber adjustment on a King n Ling Pin front end. the shims are there only to take up differences in the length of the arms.
[Edited on 1-12-2002 by vw54]
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| posted on December 2nd, 2002 at 10:35 PM |
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There is actually a way to adjust the camber of the link/king pin front beams...
It's hard to get it right, but I of course managed to get mine spot on first go.
I fell in a bloody great big hole at 60 kph on the night drive we (Manx Dune Buggy Club) did on Fraser Island a couple of weeks ago. I now have 2
degrees negative camber boths sides and it handles a treat. (Mind you I ended up with 5 degrees unwanted toe out in the incident until I adjusted it
back to where it should be.)
I do advise however you get a trained professional to perform this kind of adjustment, just to be sure it's done right. Bring it to my workshop
and I'll do it for you...
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| posted on December 14th, 2002 at 02:21 PM |
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Hey Hey
Finally i have had the oppurtunity to get back online!!
Dave & Steve, thanks heaps for the advise.
Any ideas on how to straighten front bumpers?  Right corner sits higher
than the left corner.
Zayus
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| posted on December 15th, 2002 at 01:41 PM |
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Stand on the high side of the bumper and jump up and down 'til it's not the high side any more...
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| posted on December 17th, 2002 at 08:39 AM |
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You will probally find you have the bumper brackets on wrong side.
they are handed left n right both front n rear. loosen off eveny thing and pull it out away from the car and nip up. get teh car on a flat surface n
check with a tape.
a Garage jack under the incorrect side can help push it back to the corect height and distance from the body work.
I spent several days on my bumpers to get sitting right before painting them.
just takes a bit of stuffin around and jumping on them or a gentle pull up can also help.
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