rear alignment
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7th Gear
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rear alignment
while looking at my 1978 corvette from the rear, it appears the passenger side tire and wheel is leaning in at the top, can this be fixed with an alignment or is there a weak spring or something else?
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Joined: Sep 1999
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From: Plano TX
Jack the car up, grab the wheels at 12 and 6 and wiggle. That's to check if your strut rod bushing or rear wheel bearings are shot. If that checks out (i.e. very little play) you need to remove the half shaft u-joint caps, and then pull in/out on the stub axle (the thing coming out of the diff that the halfshaft was attached to). If it moves more than 0.050" it's time for a diff rebuild.
If all the above is ok, and the strut rod camber adjustment is not maxed out, your camber can be corrected with an alignment.
Edit: Spring has to be disconnected at trailing arm before removing half shaft.
If all the above is ok, and the strut rod camber adjustment is not maxed out, your camber can be corrected with an alignment.
Edit: Spring has to be disconnected at trailing arm before removing half shaft.
Thread Starter
7th Gear
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 7
Likes: 0
Jack the car up, grab the wheels at 12 and 6 and wiggle. That's to check if your strut rod bushing or rear wheel bearings are shot. If that checks out (i.e. very little play) you need to remove the half shaft u-joint caps, and then pull in/out on the stub axle (the thing coming out of the diff that the halfshaft was attached to). If it moves more than 0.050" it's time for a diff rebuild.
If all the above is ok, and the strut rod camber adjustment is not maxed out, your camber can be corrected with an alignment.
Edit: Spring has to be disconnected at trailing arm before removing half shaft.
If all the above is ok, and the strut rod camber adjustment is not maxed out, your camber can be corrected with an alignment.
Edit: Spring has to be disconnected at trailing arm before removing half shaft.
