YES, now you are thinking!
As you can see in the picture, the aft bolt requires a big spacer and a
longer
bolt.
And the caliper is mounted on the outside of the spindle and it looks like
he milled the outside of the spindle a little. And I think originally the
bolt threads into the spindle, he must have threaded the caliper or used
a nut to hold it on. I have some Alpine arms around here somewhere
that I was going to use... hope they got moved and not dumpstered!
For those that can't find the picture, here is the link:
www.classictiger.com/mudge/glimpses/car10.htm
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: <sosnaenergyconsulting@cox.net>
To: <garywinblad@attbi.com>
Cc: <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: Doane's STEERING
> Hi Gary:
> While trying to figure out this MGB steering arm swap, Smitty and I
> looked at a set of Alpine steering arms. We flipped them left-to-right
> and reversed them so that they would point forward, but the arms then
> pointed TOWARDS the motor rather than towards the wheel, which wouldn't
> have helped. As I was writing the above, I was thinking "what about
> pointing them forward, but NOT flipping them left for right?" They'd
> technically be upside down, but that might not matter. I'll have to
> take a look next time I get down to the shop.
>
> Regards
>
> David Sosna
>
> garywinblad@attbi.com wrote:
> >
> > To tie two recent threads together here:
> >
> > Doane made a significant improvement to his Tiger race
> > car's steering way before Dale made his steering kit.
> > WHY doesn't anyone now replicate Doane's solution? (See
> > Norm's web site:
> >
> > www.rootes1.com
> > Historical glimpses page 10
> >
> > Doane flipped the brake rotor and used Alpine steering
> > arms. This puts the tie rod end further outboard and I
> > think the Alpine arm is even longer than the MGB arm,
> > both would further help the ackerman angles.
> >
> > Gary
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