The alignment shop did not want to install the shim because my car has a
rust hole in the lower outside corner of the vertical panel behind the seats
that the radius rod is connected to. They felt this was too rusty for them
to risk adding a shim. I should have just asked them for the tools and done
this myself while I was there but they did say that they would check it and
readjust the front toe when I brought it back. I'll make sure that they
bounce or roll the car before they check it this time.
Bob Berger
78 Spitfire
> From: Doug Braun <doug@dougbraun.com>
> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:10:19 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Bob Berger <bberger720@sbcglobal.net>, "triumphs@autox.team.net"
> <triumphs@autox.team.net>, <spitfires@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Spits] [Spit] Rear Toe - Spitfire
>
> Removing a shim makes the radius rod shorter, which
> moves the wheel forward, which will make it toe in.
>
> I cannot see how an alignment shop could measure the
> error but not know how to fix it! The swing-axle
> setup is pretty straightforward.
>
> Besides, couldn't they try (for example) adding a shim
> and seeing if the alignment gets better or worse?
> Assuming nothing is frozen, rusted out, etc., adding
> or removing shims takes just a few minutes. They
> should have dealt with it while the car was on the
> machine.
>
> Doug Braun
> '72 Spit
>
>
> --- Bob Berger <bberger720@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just had the alignment checked on my spitfire and
>> the shop told me that
>> one of my rear wheels is toed in and the other is
>> toed out. The wheel that
>> is toed out is is specs and the other one will be in
>> spec by moving the
>> radius arm with 1 shim.
>>
>> The only problem is that they/I do not know enough
>> about the spitfire rear
>> end geometry to tell me if I need to add the shim or
>> remove the shim.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me which I need?
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