Fascinating!
So as with many a myth, there is some truth. The shim would have been
on opposite sides RHD vs. LHD.
Greg "Lunker" Hilyer
TR4 #314
Albuquerque NM
On Sep 22, 2010, at 12:07 PM, Kas Kastner wrote:
> The TR-3 cars were assembled with a shim under the right rear
> spring so that the right rear was lower and that raised the left
> front to compensate for the drivers weight. We had dozens of
> people complain about their cars sitting with the left front high
> and all we had to do was take out he little shim. I used this in
> racing my car to adjsut for the various right and left turn tracks.
> ---- "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> =============
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Greg ''Lunker'' Hilyer wrote:
>
>> Here's a urban myth to run by the group. I actually believe it to
>> be true as
>> I've run into it more than once.
>> They were set-up that way to compensate for LHD on crowned roads.
>> RHD would
>> have the corresponding difference on the other side.
>> Thoughts?
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