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Re: Alignment toe-in specs

To: "William H. Whitney" <bill-whitney@erols.com>,
Subject: Re: Alignment toe-in specs
From: "Greg Monfort" <wingracer@email.msn.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 20:26:04 -0400
The majority of machines will do the conversion if the the tech
knows how, but 1/8" = ~.26deg total or .13deg/side. Actually, if the
machine is accurate to 3 decimal places, then .125 deg/side or
.25deg total. I also recommend -.5 deg camber, +2.5 deg caster.

GM
-----Original Message-----
>
>Here's an alignment question:
>
>The latest specs I find for front end alignment show the Toe-in as
>"1/8". My alignment shop asks "1/8 of what?" He said toe-in is set
in
>degrees and it would be better if the toe-in were expressed in
exact
>degrees, or like "1/8 of 100 degrees", or something similar. Does
anyone
>know what the specs in degrees are?





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