Simon,
You cannot check the wheel alignment with the wheels of the floor. The
car has to be on its 4 wheels with the correct tire pressures, fully
settled with ca. 75 kg on each seat (rolled back and forward, bounced up
and down) on a horizontal and level surface before you can do any
meaningfull measurements.
Soak the nuts in penetrant oil for a while, grip the cross tube with a
pipe wrench and loosen the nuts, they are not part of the tube. Check
for left hand and right hand thread. Turning the tube will move the
wheels pointing both inward or both outward at the same time. Make sure
that the steering wheel is positioned in the middle position when both
front wheels are in the straight ahead position and check that the
wheels can be turned the same amount each way.
Best left to the pro's though, as they have the right equipment.
Kees Oudesluijs
NL
Simon Lachlan schreef:
> My car is a 3000, MkII BT7.
> I have the car on blocks, nose up, wheels on or off, grille out - everything
> accessible.
> So, the front wheels do not appear to be anything like parallel. I know that
> the car is hardly in the right posture for this to be properly tested, but
> I'd like to acquaint myself with the dos and donts in this area before I get
> in too much of a panic.
> I don't find any of my manuals to be very helpful. Adjustment appears to be
> done via the cross-tube after loosening the lock nuts which are RHT & LHT at
> either end. OK so far? I take the cross tube to be the only large bar/rod
> which connects the two steering area (other than the anti roll bar of
> course). I've tried loosening off the nuts at either end of this bar with no
> luck at all. I've not applied too much torque as it seems to be an area
> where things could bend! The nuts don't appear to be separate from the rod;
> they appear to be part of it, unless they're very neatly finished off. Am I
> missing the point here?
> It all seems so tight and generally immovable that I don't see how it can be
> done...hence the feeling that I'm trying too hard to do the wrong thing.
> Any suggestions? I'm not convinced that I want to do the final adjustments
> myself, not having the correct equipment, but I'd like to a) understand the
> issues and b) have it ready/loose enough for the local tyre and wheel place
> to be able to get near it....
> Simon
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