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Date:         Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:50:38 -0800
Reply-To:     Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Adjusting Rear Camber
Comments: To: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
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re "It seems like people who are parting out > Vanagons don't want to remove something that allows the chassis to sit > firmly/roll. "

that's true. Makes it so you can eventually haul the carcass away if you keep 'some' kind of suspension on it. . And.......I have a vanagon that I might just cut up eventually to haul it off, and I would sell a rear trailing arm out of it. It's not rusted at all, so hopefully that bolt and bushing area will come apart nicely.

if interested, please pmail. located in Southern Oregon Scott www.turbovans.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Haynes" <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:50 PM Subject: Re: Adjusting Rear Camber

> The bolt is a fine thread bolt. I can get them along with the nuts. > That hole in the body will require a welding repair. The barrel in the > bushing needs a good strong plate to grab against. Remember all > accelerating > and braking forces go through the control arm mounts. The man with the air > chisel needs to have his hands tied. When the time comes you will have the > same challenges on the front control arms. > A little dab of anti seize will keep it from happening again. > Dennis > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of > joe trussell > Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 9:59 AM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Re: Adjusting Rear Camber > > I snapped the head off of the bolt using a breaker bar. I had to take it > to > a shop to get the rest of the bolt removed; it wouldn't budge. They ended > cutting the other side of the bolt off and removing the control arm. They > also ruined the $60 rubber bushing. They also inadvertently bored out > the outside hole in the body where the bolt passes through by going crazy > with a chisel hammer. Then they couldn't find a replacement bolt in the > right size (NLA from VW) and stuck an old smaller shock bolt in there with > a washer that partly caved into the hole they created. Now the camber > is completely wrong. > > It's taken me several months to find a replacement bolt/washer/nut > set (finally found one last week). It seems like people who are parting > out > Vanagons don't want to remove something that allows the chassis to sit > firmly/roll. I'm hoping that the hole they created doesn't have things > completely screwed up when I go in there to try to fix it. > > In other words, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. This has been a > self-induced nightmare. > Cheers, > Joe T. > '85 Vanagon with one slew foot. > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Dennis Haynes > <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>wrote: > >> Most likely you will have to cut the blots just inside the mounting > plates. >> Not a job for the faint of heart. Choices are torch and watch that rubber >> burn or careful execution with the Sawzall. You will need to cut the bolt >> and barrel on at least the bolt head side. Personally unless the >> alignment >> is so far off that you can really feel or you shave off tires in 10,000 >> miles I would leave things alone until the rear trailing arms need to be >> removed for some other reason. After all, it has been as it is since day >> one. >> >> Dennis >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf >> Of >> Geo & Kathleen Hahn >> Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 6:11 PM >> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >> Subject: Re: Adjusting Rear Camber >> >> Bingo -- this (rusted in place) is just what I ran into. Lots of days of >> PBlaster, impact wrench, long breaker bar, etc failed to move the bolt. >> >> Going on a long trip in a week so I really can't risk breaking or melting >> something right now -- will wait until I return to invoke some nuclear >> option. >> >> Geo H >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dennis Haynes" <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM> >> This is easy as long as the bolts are not rusted to the barrels in the >> rubber mounts. >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Geo & Kathleen Hahn >> <ahwahnee@cybertrails.com> wrote: >> > Thanks to Scott, Don & Roger for all the advice and that excellent >> > link. >>


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