SURELY you don't mean a repair shop would charge for
work not done or parts replaced that didn't need it or
were not replaced in the first place?????
hehehehehehehehe
Donald & Henry Stike
--- Nolan Penney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, caster is adjustable. It's adjustable the same
> way it is for any
> production double a-arm front suspension car. You
> use an unequal
> quantity of shims under the lower a-arm mounts to
> "tilt" the arm forward
> or back, changing the castor.
>
> The caveat is that a Spitfire doesn't use a double
> ball joint
> suspension, it uses a trunnion on the bottom
> instead. The trunnion
> only has two axis of rotation, not the three a ball
> joint has. So it
> doesn't take kindly to being shoved forward and
> backwards. This induces
> wear on the trunnion, and can lead to breakage.
> This is something I've
> been pointing out for years, that you've got to be
> careful about this
> with regards to Spitfires. Glad to see one of the
> louder nay sayers has
> finally seen the light.
>
> And, of course, the shop that worked on your car may
> not have adjusted
> it anyhow, and simply noted it incorrectly in their
> repair write up.
>
> >>> James Carruthers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 07/02/04 05:51AM >>>
> >Thanks everyone for their replies - that means I
> can take my car back
>
> >and tell them to refund my money because you can't
> adjust castor! I
> got
> >charged about #30 for it...
> >
> >It could have been a simple mistake... the girl who
> charged me had
> >talked to the adjuster guy and he'd said what he'd
> done to her...
>
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