Best settings for wheel alignment
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Best settings for wheel alignment
Hi,
I´m back after a long time and I hope you can help me.
I´m looking for the best wheel alignment settings for my Vette.
The German roads are winding and the curves require a very good aligned steering and suspension...
A garage changed my wheel alignment settings and replaced the steering box and the power steering control valve with rebuilt parts.
The feeling at steering is not that soft and unexact anymore, but there´s a lot of force required to steer out of the center position. Then in curves it seems that the car steers disproportionately strong and delayed.
Attached are my current settings. I hope you can understand it.
Best regards,
Andreas
I´m back after a long time and I hope you can help me.
I´m looking for the best wheel alignment settings for my Vette.
The German roads are winding and the curves require a very good aligned steering and suspension...
A garage changed my wheel alignment settings and replaced the steering box and the power steering control valve with rebuilt parts.
The feeling at steering is not that soft and unexact anymore, but there´s a lot of force required to steer out of the center position. Then in curves it seems that the car steers disproportionately strong and delayed.
Attached are my current settings. I hope you can understand it.
Best regards,
Andreas
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From: Salmon Arm, BC
I'm no alignment specialist, and my german-english translation skills are poor....even with the help of the computer.....but it looks like
Front
Castor (nachlauf) is good in the front.......11/2-3 degrees is desired
Toe-in (sturz) is good in the front........1/8-3/16" toe in is desired
Camber (einzelspur) needs adjustment......1/4-1/2 degree negative is desired
Rear
Camber (einzelspur) Left side needs adjustment.....1/4-1/2 degree negative is desired
Toe (sturz).........................Needs adjustment....1/8" toe in is desired
Forgive me if my reference to the names are wrong, but the desired settings are good for each english word.
Rear toe out is probably what is making your car drive poorly through the corners.
Your steering box may be adjusted too tight, and that could be the problem with the force required to steer from centre. Does it return to centre on it's own or do you have to steer it there?
Here is a link for steering box adjustment
http://jimshea.corvettefaq.com/wp-co...verhaulpdf.pdf
Here is a link for alignment specs
http://www.vansteel.com/PDFs/6382AlignmentSpecs.pdf
Front
Castor (nachlauf) is good in the front.......11/2-3 degrees is desired
Toe-in (sturz) is good in the front........1/8-3/16" toe in is desired
Camber (einzelspur) needs adjustment......1/4-1/2 degree negative is desired
Rear
Camber (einzelspur) Left side needs adjustment.....1/4-1/2 degree negative is desired
Toe (sturz).........................Needs adjustment....1/8" toe in is desired
Forgive me if my reference to the names are wrong, but the desired settings are good for each english word.
Rear toe out is probably what is making your car drive poorly through the corners.
Your steering box may be adjusted too tight, and that could be the problem with the force required to steer from centre. Does it return to centre on it's own or do you have to steer it there?
Here is a link for steering box adjustment
http://jimshea.corvettefaq.com/wp-co...verhaulpdf.pdf
Here is a link for alignment specs
http://www.vansteel.com/PDFs/6382AlignmentSpecs.pdf
Last edited by OMF; Oct 13, 2014 at 07:56 PM.
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Hi!
Thanks for your feedback.
I drove the car 3 weeks ago. Now it´s getting a new clutch.
I think the steering came back to center position very easily.
The reaction of the steering was just not feeling proportional.
In Germany many Corvette drivers have the same problem.
Maybe our repair shops don´t know what they do at American classic cars.
Andreas
Thanks for your feedback.
I drove the car 3 weeks ago. Now it´s getting a new clutch.
I think the steering came back to center position very easily.
The reaction of the steering was just not feeling proportional.
In Germany many Corvette drivers have the same problem.
Maybe our repair shops don´t know what they do at American classic cars.
Andreas
