if you don't measure off the pinion you don't know if you made a parallelogram
though..
Dave
Keith Turk wrote:
>
> everyone knows my car is hard to push.... and handled like junk at
> speedweek. I have been searching for answers...
>
> Competitiion design there in Salt Lake Jumped up and helped me rebuild the
> rear springs in a day.... it was awesome to see them work.... and woudln't
> take a dime of my money... just great folks... Problem was we got some used
> leafs out of a junk yard and they didn't match so the preload in the rear
> end wasn't right.... fair enough... I ordered a new set of leaf's from
> Landrum and they came in.... While installing them I wanted to check the
> rear end housing to see if it was Square....
>
> Dave Picked Toe'd out and negative camber.... and Yep he was right.... it
> was toe'd out and had a bit of negative camber....
>
> none of this is really interesting.... the question is How do you fix it? I
> called Curries and Sal at Total Cost involved.... and Dave and I went
> through it..... Geez I might be able to make a fixture to hold the rear end
> in the Press.... put a little pressure on it and use a bit of heat....
> Bingo.... instant squared rear end.....
>
> The way I checked it was I bolted on a couple of straps of angle iron to the
> axle flanges using the lug nuts.... keep them in the center of the axle and
> as I spun them around ( one on each side) I could take a side to side
> measurement and the rear end was straight when the measurement didn't change
> when I spun them around ....front to back or top to bottom....
>
> This isn't as good as using a fixture.... but the honest answer is it's as
> good as most folks use in the industry....
>
> Keith ( fun stuff )
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