On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote: > Allan's advice is right on! Don't expect someone who's worked on mainstream > vehicles only to be even close when you give em a Vanagon to align. You > should only use a shop with a tech who's versed in Vanagons. You might be > wise to stay right there with the Bently in hand and make sure they do it > properly, too. I've seen em just 'blow-off' an accepted proceedure just to > get on to the next job..and that means you just wasted time and money on a > bad job. A lot of the techs you'll get at shops are not the best thinkers > and yet they all will tell you they've been at it for years and know exactly > what they are doing...(even if they have never worked on a Vanagon)..Yah > think aligning a Dodge 3/4 ton 4x4 is exactly like a VW?... > Don Hanson >
I agree. I hope to get time with either of two Vanagon aware shops close by. As an experiment, I'll adjust "new" radius arm nut (less than 2 turns) to original position as it came off the '85 parts Vanagon. (indicated by rust on threads) I suspect that transferring position of damaged arm nut to nut on "new" arm, then installing this into the corrected (repaired) hole, is part of the problem. Neil.
-- Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines |
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