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Ben Lipman
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Soarer TT manual

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Friday, March 27, 2009 - 08:52 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a)

Well, the alignment is done.

I had 10mm toe in on the left rear, nearly 10mm toe out on the right, and the camber was all over the place. Annoyingly, the left tie rod was adjusted 15mm shorter than the right (I really should have watched the wheel alignment place a little closer!).

I now have 0.5mm toe in on the rears (1mm total) with 2 degrees neg camber, and 1mm toe out on the fronts (2mm total) with a fraction over 2 degrees neg camber, and all the caster she had to give.

The tie rods are equal length, give or take a mil. It turns out the steering wheel was on one bolt hole to the right.

Plus I learnt a lot about how my suspension works. It would be interesting to take it to an alignment centre to see how accurate my home made set up is, but I can't see myself finding the time.

My dodgy setup is below. Basically two parallel string lines, a home made camber gauge, and some home made toe plates. The tyres pivot/move on a layer of grease sandwiched between two steel plates.

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