Alignment Problems

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"hence 'road crown"'....wat?


AZ has about half the amount of crown that GA has. Your advice of half a degree camber/caster will cause his car to track to the left...

Baer383

My working are cars for 25 years begs to differ with you.

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Red__Zed

wat?

Baer383

If he adds .5 caster to the right side this problem will go away,and his car won't track left.

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Red__Zed

The "wat?" is in response to your sentence. WTF are you trying to say?

Again, .5 degrees is too much of an adjustment to make. Your 25 years of experience make much of your experience outdated. These days, most roads are divided with the crown between lanes going the same direction, meaning the left lane will be tilted down. Making this caster adjustment will cause the car to track left heavily.

Also, if you bias the caster, it will only work if the crown happens to match the bias, otherwise it will still pull one way or the other. If he's driving in AZ, .5 is TOO MUCH. It's not GA or NJ. Having spent a lot of time in both states, they run 3%+ of crown, which makes half a degree fine. In AZ, they run maybe 2%. .5* is way too much.

Finally, anyone that actually expects their car to perform properly on a course would be an idiot to set different caster on each side.

Baer383

Judging from the limited info the op has given and looking at his sheet there is only 2 suggestions 1 is .5 more caster on the right or the op has not disclosed all pertinent info,my response is based on what he wrote I'm not speculating outside of what he wrote.

if the op has a problem it is his responsibly to disclose all he knows(maybe he has)but going by what he wrote I stand behind what I wrote if he chimes in with different info then maybe I will change my tune as of now I'm still singing the same song.

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