Date:         Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:08:43 -0700
Reply-To:     Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From:         Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagons are too cool?
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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you might try checking the RF camber with a carpenter's level and small
ruler.
van on a level surface of course.
If it's got much negative camber,
or more than the LF side  ..
and bushings/ball joints, wheel bearings  are pretty decent ..
you could turn the eccentric big bolt on the upper a-arm ..
tweak that just a bit to less negaitive camber, then adust toe.
That'll work.


On 3/20/2013 8:27 PM, Don Hanson wrote:
>> I often get the feeling (after short conversation) that some folk do not
>> realise that ongoing work is a price of admission to this club.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> alistair
>>
>     I just paid my admission again after my 2.5 month road trip...Spent
> about 3 hrs on my 84 inline 5sp doing my deferred 'chores'   I don't defer
> important chores like oil changing and fuel filters when traveling but I do
> try to minimize my under-van visits when on the road...
>
> Chores like windexing the inside of the windows..changing my indoor/outdoor
> rubber backed carpet inside, running some dilute clorox into my water tank,
> spray-lube spray on the shifter parts under the van and the suspension
> bushings, filling the washer fluid tank, cleaning and lubing the throttle
> position switch and all that linkage, checking the belts and cleaning the
> air filter element, swapping the front wheels side to side (RF is a tiny
> bit out of alignment and wears a bit more on the inside edge) checking the
> spare again for air pressure, lubing all the doors and latches, installing
> new wiperblades (I am back in the NW, after all) looking at the sparkplugs,
> checking the hoses and clamps, put some Seafoam into the gas tank to give
> the injectors a bath....Little stuff like that...All the while, checking
> for problems as I went about these small tasks....
>
>    Yes, the people in the Honda Elements or the Porsche Cayennes or the
> Grand Cherokee Jeeps....they have no idea about anything like this kind of
> 'love' we often give our vanagons..our price of admission to the club....
>