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Technical => Suspension/Steering => Topic started by: rob302 on January 02, 2009, 05:21:50 PM

Title: well i aligned my 86 tbird today with the sn95 spindales
Post by: rob302 on January 02, 2009, 05:21:50 PM
well the camber is still postive but its in the green but still postive i didnt check caster cause i have no adjustments but any way the toe is dead on ive checked and took it back and redone and it still dont go straight it dont pull or anything but ive gotta hold the wheel to the right to go straight any ideas guys or am i gonna have to get camber caster plates from mm any advice wanted

Robert
Title: well i aligned my 86 tbird today with the sn95 spindales
Post by: 1trickbird on January 02, 2009, 09:43:52 PM
You can slot the top hole on your strut where the spindle bolts slot it back and it. Will let you pick up some negative camber not a lot but some
Title: well i aligned my 86 tbird today with the sn95 spindales
Post by: rob302 on January 02, 2009, 10:25:19 PM
well i need caster adjustment

Robert
Title: well i aligned my 86 tbird today with the sn95 spindales
Post by: 1trickbird on January 02, 2009, 11:26:28 PM
Sorry your post tals about camber not caster
Title: well i aligned my 86 tbird today with the sn95 spindales
Post by: Cougar5.0 on January 02, 2009, 11:37:22 PM
Funny! I read it as "caster" even though it says camber in the second sentence.
Title: well i aligned my 86 tbird today with the sn95 spindales
Post by: Beau on January 03, 2009, 01:24:45 AM
Quote from: Cougar5.0;249938
Funny! I read it as "caster" even though it says camber in the second sentence.

That's funny...I couldn't read the run-on sentence whatsoever..
Title: well i aligned my 86 tbird today with the sn95 spindales
Post by: dominator on January 03, 2009, 09:01:05 AM
If you have to hold the wheel then you have a pull.
Try cross rotating the front tires.
If your alignment angles are in the green then it's a tire pull.
My sc's alignment is 100% in the green front and rear, with the summers on she's straight as an arrow.
When i put my winters on she pulls hard right,cross rotate fixed that.
Title: well i aligned my 86 tbird today with the sn95 spindales
Post by: rob302 on January 03, 2009, 12:56:47 PM
Well I didn't check caster but I'll try swapping them and see what happens

Robert
Title: well i aligned my 86 tbird today with the sn95 spindales
Post by: rancheronut on January 04, 2009, 11:07:43 AM
try these
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/FAIRMONT-GRANADA-LTD-MUSTANG-THUNDERBIRD-CAMBER-KIT-16M_W0QQitemZ220303342897QQihZ012QQcategoryZ33581QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

these will help on camber adjustment on fox bodys car
Title: well i aligned my 86 tbird today with the sn95 spindales
Post by: Cougar5.0 on January 04, 2009, 11:28:46 AM
Quote from: FordTruckFreeek;249951
That's funny...I couldn't read the run-on sentence whatsoever..


I'm so used to reading poor english that I also subliminally added the period where it should have been - doh!!

Quote from: rancheronut
try these
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/FAIRM...QQcmdZViewItem

these will help on camber adjustment on fox bodys car


Are those offset A-Arm mounting bolts?
Title: well i aligned my 86 tbird today with the sn95 spindales
Post by: rob302 on January 04, 2009, 10:12:57 PM
well upon further investigation it looks like from reading in my old school books that a vehicle will pull to the highest positive camber so i orded caster camber plates and hopefully that will take care of it

Robert
Title: well i aligned my 86 tbird today with the sn95 spindales
Post by: The Hawk on January 12, 2009, 10:46:50 AM
Quote from: 1trickbird;249909
You can slot the top hole on your strut where the spindle bolts slot it back and it. Will let you pick up some negative camber not a lot but some


You can pick up A LOT going that route.

This was one of the old school tricks of the slalom/road race guys with Fox based cars (and many others) I did it to my struts when I was running open lapping events on a regular basis. Stock max I could get was -1*

After the mod I could easily get more than -2.5*. Remember....an 1/8" at the mounting point translates into a much larger move at the top of the tire.