Re: Wheel Alignment question

["Steven Stegmann" <steve.stegmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guys,

Check out the article I wrote on adjusting the toe on a Scout.  Easy to do
with $1.00 worth of stuff laying around your house.  Oh yeah.  You need a $5
plumb line.

Camber is very nicely adjustable on the Dana 44.  You just take off the
spindle and install new shims between the spindles and the spindle mounts.
The shims are rings made of material which is thicker on one side than the
other.  They look like gaskets.  Any auto parts should have them.  They're
called "Camber adjusting shims"

Steve


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim or Ginger Aos" <jaos@domain.elided>
To: "IHC Digest" <ihc-digest@domain.elided>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: Wheel Alignment question


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ryan Moore" <baradium@domain.elided>
> To: "David Bongo" <dbongo@domain.elided>; "IHC Digest"
> <ihc-digest@domain.elided>
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 2:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Wheel Alignment question
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Bongo" <dbongo@domain.elided>
> > To: "IHC Digest" <ihc-digest@domain.elided>
> > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 15:30
> > Subject: Wheel Alignment question
> >
> >
> > > I'm looking for some general knowledge here.  I got my Scout fixed
from
> > > the tie rod mishap, but the alignment is wrong.  I brought it to the
> > > tire place for an alignment, and they told me they couldn't do it.  (I
> > > later found out that they could do the toe-in, which is all I was
> > > worried about -- after all, it was a tie rod problem I had.)
> Big snip
> The toe in is not real difficult to set.  The main problem is to find a
true
> line that the tire rotates to.  In order to do that jack up the tire so
that
> it rotates freely.  Then as some one rotates the wheel, hold a marking
> devise,  ( I use a long screwdriver, with the blade turned on edge ) and
> carefully holding it steady make a clear mark, near the center of the
tread
> around the circumference of the tire. Repeat for the other side.   With
both
> wheels back on the floor, or driveway, drive ahead about the revolution of
> the tire.  Then from the closest to center height of the two wheels,
measure
> the distance between the marks on the back side of the tires then on the
> front  side.  The difference between the two measurements should be
between
> 1/16th " and 3/16th"s the front side being shorter.  That is called "toe
in"
> and varies depending on size, make, year, condition of steering parts of
the
> vehicle.
>
> I have set mine on the less toe in.  If the toe in is too much, the front
> has  tendencies to dive or turn too fast too much.  Not enough and the
front
> likes to wander.
>
> If you do this job yourself, [approximately] one fourth of a turn on the
> adjusting sleeve is [about] 1/16th of an inch on toe in adjustment.
> Cheers Jim A.
>
>
> Jim Aos
> jaos@domain.elided
> Okanogan, WA
>
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