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Ha. Funny. We have rednecks too. Big guys, big trucks, drag a club and only grunt.

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Steve

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Jack McCornack has a quick align tutorial on his site. Check it out if you haven't already.

I have a slight wander problem but I know I need a lot more caster than I have. The wander was much worse with a little toe-out. Had a race shop do an alignment. Didn't cure all my ills but did help.

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Larry in Seattle

You might try lowering the tire pressure a bit and see if you get some more self-centering. Also, some tires have... it's not "pneumatic trail", but the configuration of the internal belts gives a similar effect. You may find a different brand of tire will have more (or less) self-centering.

If it comes down to it, hey, you already welded up one set of A-arms, it's no trouble to make more...

... and that's just the women.

The tech that did my alignment mentioned I should lower the tire pressure to around 16 LBs. Haven't done it yet. Will tomorrow to see what it does.

Have you tried it yet Steve?

Cheers,

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Larry in Seattle

Last night I did a 5 min preliminary check just to see where I am going to start. The camber is off a lot from side to side. I could have sworn it was dead nuts at 1.5degrees. I set a square on the ground and measured top of rim and had 1/2” on one 3/4” on the other. Kinda off, oops. Unless setting it on the ground has an effect. Tire pressure is 12psi and no buldge in side walls. I also picked up some 3/4”x.120 to remake the fender stays. These wiggle a lot. Aluminum for hood. We’ll see how bad I screw this up. And solid 1/2” round SS for head rest mounts. There’s a list for ya.

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Steve

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I finished the fender stays and was able to lower the fenders and get that low profile I was looking for. The new mounts are like night and day in stiffness so I am very optimistic these are keepers.
Got on the alignment and finished everything but dialing in the toe. I did one method then got a better idea. So I have to finish tomorrow when I can borrow tools from my neighbor. That is the clamp on the level acting as a straight edge. You see the white line. I ran those from the rear and put a straight edge on the side of the wheel and eyeballed it. Your laughing, I know. So I need to double check it with this new and improved method that involves a tape measure!! Yeah! Some sort of accuracy in the caveman methodology. Then we drive. Watch it will pull all over the place. I have that kind of luck. It went straight you know, how I don’t know the toe out was redicoulous, many degrees to the outside. Snow plowing I was.

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Steve

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The excitement builds. So my straight edges strapped to the tires defiantly worked. Took it for a ride and the toe didn’t change the camber ended up at 1.6 and 1.9 after the suspension settled in. Unreal. This thing handles crazy tight. All the wondering went away, the wheel turns well out of corners so I can tell the caster is pretty decent. I had 6.3 on that yesterday. Wow! What fun!!

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Steve

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Outstanding, Steve. Maybe some video next time?

Cheers,

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Damn! That front slip angle is way too large and the Ackerman is just a muddle.

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Looks great Steve.

I noticed the jam nut missing on the outer tie rod end, but you may have installed it after the pic.

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Perry

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I have one on the other side of my extension. Do I need one here too?

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Steve

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Yes. There's a small amount of clearance in the threads. If you run without a jam nut, the clearance will increase and the threads get beaten up. With a jam nut the parts can't move in relation to each other.

I get it. I’ll get 2 on there. Thanks. It took a lot to set that toe in. I’ll have to put some dang good marks on there to take it apart.

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Steve

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It's easy Steve. Put a couple of tram marks on, one on the TRE and one on the ext tube. Did this all the time when taking gas compressor rods/crossheads apart.
Center punch the TRE, then centre punch the ext tube along the same plane. Use a tram (or a set of callipers with the pointed ends) to measure the distance between the two centre punch marks within .001". Write this down, take it apart, install the jam nut, put it back together until the tram marks (centre punch marks) line up and have the same measurement that you wrote down, jam the nut.
Easy peasy, nothing has changed.

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Perry

'If man built it, man can fix it'
"No one ever told me I couldn't do it."
"If you can't build it safe, don't build it."

Perry's Locost Super Che7enette Build
Perry's TBird Based 5.0L Super 7 L.S.O
Perry's S10 Super 7 The 3rd
Perry's 4th Build The Topolino 500 (Little Mouse) Altered
Perry's 5th Build the Super Slant 6 Super 7
Perry's Final Build the 1929 Mercedes Gazelle

That’s awesome. Really. Thanks I’ll do that today.

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Steve

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