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Re: Cupping Wear

To: "Mike Maclean" <macleans@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Cupping Wear
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 22:12:07 -0700
Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
References: <3D75349B.9668717A@earthlink.net>
Sounds like a toe-in problem.
        Crash

> I now have almost 5000 miles on my restored stock Bugeye and I am going
> to rotate the tires.  Upon inspection of the front tires, the outside
> inch and a half or so is worn down and slightly cupped.  Is this normal
> for the Bugeye?  Should I just rotate the tires more often?  When the
> car was in the body shop for restoration the front frame rails were
> found to be bent to the point that the bonnet locating pins would not go
> in the hole at the end of the rails.  The body shop guy said he bent the
> one that was bent back so all would line up.  I understand that the
> front rail are bent in a specific way to create a 3 degree camber angle
> on the front end.  Would straitening out the ends of the rails that
> protrude in front of the radiator mess with this?  Or do I just have to
> live with this kind of tire wear?
> Mike MacLean-60 Sprite

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