In article <031d01c1de84$e02428c0$9bf4a8c0@zebu>, Graham Stretch
<technical@iwnet.screaming.net> writes
>Hi Michael
>Another thing to look out for is strange tyre wear patterns, or more precisely
>one worn tyre on the front that looks out of place, this could indicate a bent
>verticle link, I would not turn down a good car just because of this. I bent
>one myself and it only takes slight force under the right conditions to do it.
>What I would do is change that sucker if you can't get teh tyre wear sorted
>with minor tracking alignment, yes you could set the suspension up to remove
>the tyre wear by doing the camber castor etc but that is not teh point. It is
>not much fun when a verticle link colapses.
I can believe that. Thanks for the tip.
> Also I found my Herald a bit
>scitish with the front suspension set up as factory, but then that is for
>cross plies and you won't be using those will you?
Can you even still buy them?
> I set the camber on the
>front to about 1deg neg ie in at the top, which is much better for radial
>tyres and gives back that driving on rails feeling to the car.
Noted and filed. Thanks very much.
ATB
--
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html
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