The alignment shop did not want to install the shim because my car has a
rust hole in the lower outside corner of the vertical panel behind the seats
that the radius rod is connected to. They felt this was too rusty for them
to risk adding a shim. I should have just asked them for the tools and d
Ok,
One more stupid question.The alignment shop has a range or .14deg to
.28deg for the front toe-in and a range of -.07deg to -.21deg for toe-out
for the rear. Haynes has these as 1/16 to 1/8 inch toe-in at the front and
1/32 to 3/32 toe-out at the rear.
Do the degree numbers relate to/match
On 11 Oct 2007 at 6:31, Bob Berger wrote:
> Do the degree numbers relate to/match the inches?
> How do I convert Degrees of toe-in/out to Inches?
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it:
Toe-in is usually given in distance, not angle. The distance is the
difference between
-Original Message-
From: Bob Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The alignment shop did not want to install the shim because my car has a
rust hole in the lower outside corner of the vertical panel behind the
seats
that the radius rod is connected to. They felt this was too rusty for
them
to ris
Andy,
I hope to have time this weekend to check out the extent of the rust. I'll
see if the reinforcing bracket that holds the radius rod has been eaten away
and see if this repair needs to be made before the car is returned to the
road. I'm very concerned if this is a safety issue.
I'm sure I'l
Greetings, All!
I'm 6' 4" and as a result, my head sticks up rather high when driving
the Spitfire. I find I must recline the seat back rather far to see
out the windshield. While this works (been doing it for 8 years) it
isn't the optimum scenario. It also makes top-
--- Bob Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 78 Spitfire - trying not to destroy new tires
A Spit is quite light and is usually not driven much,
so it can take an awfully long time to wear out the
tires, even with a slight misalignment. If you have
only
one shim's worth of error and you see no sy
