Changing springs.

[Peter Jones]

Point taken regarding Rattle Guns.

I too use torque wrenches on wheel nuts. My experience is with early beetles that quite often have warped drums due to over tightening of the wheel nuts. I have had to get drums machined with the wheel attached to fix this in the past.

This discussion reminded me of Matt's thread and what can happen when you rattle gun wheel nuts.
http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/newf...hlight=grinder



Pete

[Oneofthegreats]

Great info mate but one thing the camber on a MK2 is adjustable! Done countless amounts of them mate, and if you cant just quite get the desired amount of camber there is camber correction bolts that you can buy from VW with a thinner shank for that extra adjustment.

Yep your right. I forgot all about the special bolts. I think I should stick to mk1's

Haven't really worked on that many mk2's, nor seen any early mk2's.

I read somewhere that the early mk2's were exactly like a mk1 with the eccentric bolts.
The later one's had reduced assembly tolerances, so they done away with the eccentric bolt's.
VW released a bolt with a narrower shank of 11mm instead of the standard 12mm shank bolt.
The narower shank allowed some movement upto 2 degrees of camber if both the top & lower bolt's were fitted with the special bolt.

VW Part is either - N 903 334 01 or N 101 740 02