You can order a Super Sport front end from the works. It is neutral
camber. Unless you are involved in extreme competition" Why" does come
to mind, as you will lose, if memory serves, about 3/4 inch of springing,
or change the weight and moment of your Mog. Outside of a tiny savings of
wear, in light competion or normal driving, I do not think that, outside
of appearance, in relation to other cars (to be more like them) there is
really any reason for de cambering. Certainly it would lose concourse.
If you are doing light competition, since road adhesion has nothing to do
with handling in a Morgan, you just raise your front tire pressure to 42
lbs, and drop the rear to 16 lbs. Others will set up for road racing and
plow through the corners,
good luck on the shimmy.
Chuck Harris
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997 17:46:37 -0400 ebrown@ms.com writes:
> Good advice. On Monday I ordered the bits (from Penny Bates
>-advt.)
> for $20 for everything, should take me 1/2 hour to put together
>each
> side on Sat., then I can learn what else makes a Morgan shimmy.
> Penny's full of advice on this, tensioning rods, etc.
>
> What I have also concluded, in addition to Tom's pretty obvious
>point,
> is that adjusting these things has to be a stopgap measure at
>best.
> These are wear bits, made of cheap stuff, which will get junked
>every
> now and again.
>
> At any rate, it is almost as much fun thinking about working on
>my
> Morgan as it is actually doing so!
>
> The next question I'm going to address is decambering. How much
>and
> why?
>
> Best to All-
>
> Chip Brown
>
>
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>Subject: Re: Shimmy: Update on Latest Tale of Woe
>Author: "Warden; Tom" <twarden@usia.gov> at nylanr01
>Date: 10/14/97 4:43 PM
>
>
>Chip:
>
>Don't drive yourself crazy with this. New damper blades and shims are
>
>dirt cheap. Buy new and be done with it. I bought mine directly from
>
>the factory.
>
>Tom Warden
>1965 4/4 (B-1063)
>
>
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