I am curious - my car has rear adjustable radius rods with some very fancy
looking (Heim?) joints - quite different than what was on my 74 parts car.
My car is a 77 chassis - is this what it came with or a PO modification?
The guy I bought it from was an autocrosser, it had Koni's all around (set
full hard) and the competition front springs - it should have come with a
kidney belt!
Kevin Rhodes
Portland Maine
Freddy the Mongrel Spit
At 12:53 06/16/2000 -0400, Nolan Penney wrote:
>You adjust rear toe by adding or removing shims under the radius rod
>bracket at the body tub connection. Each side is adjusted
>independently. But remember, you can achieve a proper total toe number by
>having one side toed out, and the other side toed in excessively. On a
>solid axle car this would just mean you crab going down the road, and
>we've all seen cars doing this. With the independent swing axle, it
>causes motion problems on each side due to the way the thrusts are acting
>with relation to the imaginary line the suspension pivots about...I
>think. Not going to swear to it because there might be another line or
>two in that equation.
>
>I believe all Spitfires do do this raising and lowering action depending
>on if you're going forward or backwards, but I also think it's not
>supposed to be dramatic. Yours sounds dramatic, which is why I'm
>suspicious, doubly so because it's only happening on the one side.
>
>I'll agree that 165 lbs shouldn't rock the world, but it will affect
>alignment.
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