Actually, this sounds good;
Your "shear points" (the shank on the rod end) did not fail you but, saved
your more expensive pieces from failure.
Duplicating the other side is a good START on restoring your car to proper
alignment. Afterwards, be sure and check your cornerweights, ride height,
etc. You are probably off but, not far if your chassis is straight.
Again, congrats on a "successful failure."
Dave Gill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aglet Racing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [F500] RR alignment
Thanks for all the replies. I started taking things apart last
evening and have found no damage beyond a gouged wheel, the broken rod
end and bent rod ends on the steering link on that side.
Unfortunately, I didn't measure it when I got it - my bad, but lesson
learned. The car was stable in all regimes except hard braking in a
really bumpy braking area so I'll duplicate the settings on the right
side before I tear it apart and replace all the rod ends.
I don't know for sure how fast I was going, at Bremerton Motorsports
Park last year I zip-tied a GPS unit in and was hitting ~91-92 at the
end of the front straight. I'm lapping there about 10 seconds quicker
now (1.1 mile track) so I'm guessing I was somewhere around 100 when
it let go. It went as soon as I hit the brakes at the end of the
front straight, it's really bumpy there so I didn't hear it go but the
car took an immediate hard left; it straightened out when I let off
the brakes.
I went into the infield and filled the car with dirt and vegetation,
bounced across Turn 1 and came to rest in the runoff area of the turn.
Gene near Seattle
On 8/4/07, Richard Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The questions I have is, how fast were you going when it separated ? and
how
did you break it ? This rod end is a 1/2", should last longer that the
upright.
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