Rear Toe Adjustment?
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Racer
Joined: Nov 2007
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From: Yankton South Dakota
Rear Toe Adjustment?
A little History
I am doing an aggressive alignment on my C5 Z06 that I daily drive (everyother week out of town the other half of the time), AutoX about 2 times a month, run HPDE once a month, and will be racing in the SORC in August.
I have the settings I desire... But
Problem:
How the heck do you adjust the rear toe or is my outer tie rods "froze". I loosened the outer jam nut and try spinning the rod and nothing. (applied enough force to "open" a 13mm wrench..)
The suspension on these cars is so simple I can't believe I am not seeing the problem.
Tried loosinging the 24mm nut on the back side of the rod and still nothing. (by the way this is a bitch to get at). How do you adjust the rear toe?
I am doing an aggressive alignment on my C5 Z06 that I daily drive (everyother week out of town the other half of the time), AutoX about 2 times a month, run HPDE once a month, and will be racing in the SORC in August.
I have the settings I desire... But
Problem:
How the heck do you adjust the rear toe or is my outer tie rods "froze". I loosened the outer jam nut and try spinning the rod and nothing. (applied enough force to "open" a 13mm wrench..)
The suspension on these cars is so simple I can't believe I am not seeing the problem.
Tried loosinging the 24mm nut on the back side of the rod and still nothing. (by the way this is a bitch to get at). How do you adjust the rear toe?
Le Mans Master
Joined: Dec 2006
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From: Phoenix Arizona
A little History
I am doing an aggressive alignment on my C5 Z06 that I daily drive (everyother week out of town the other half of the time), AutoX about 2 times a month, run HPDE once a month, and will be racing in the SORC in August.
I have the settings I desire... But
Problem:
How the heck do you adjust the rear toe or is my outer tie rods "froze". I loosened the outer jam nut and try spinning the rod and nothing. (applied enough force to "open" a 13mm wrench..)
The suspension on these cars is so simple I can't believe I am not seeing the problem.
Tried loosinging the 24mm nut on the back side of the rod and still nothing. (by the way this is a bitch to get at). How do you adjust the rear toe?
I am doing an aggressive alignment on my C5 Z06 that I daily drive (everyother week out of town the other half of the time), AutoX about 2 times a month, run HPDE once a month, and will be racing in the SORC in August.
I have the settings I desire... But
Problem:
How the heck do you adjust the rear toe or is my outer tie rods "froze". I loosened the outer jam nut and try spinning the rod and nothing. (applied enough force to "open" a 13mm wrench..)
The suspension on these cars is so simple I can't believe I am not seeing the problem.
Tried loosinging the 24mm nut on the back side of the rod and still nothing. (by the way this is a bitch to get at). How do you adjust the rear toe?
mine was bent 
had to replace it was only 55 bucks
Thread Starter
Racer
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 356
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From: Yankton South Dakota
Do you need to loosen the 24mm nut on the back side of the rod? I would have a hard time seeing this part being froze. The car only has 18k miles on it and has been stored indoors... None of the other bolts on the entire car are froze and both the rear arms are? Just thought I was doing something wrong...
Ryan
Ryan
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From: Littleton Colorado
No, the 24mm is not to be loosened.
Try coating it with a penetraiting oil like wd-40 and let it sit over night. Or try heating it, I'd take a torch and heat up the outer tie rod end. And, try a large cresent wrench or similar, the bigger the better.
You do have the tire off the ground right? had to ask...
A couple of mine were frozen, but 100k miles is a lot more than yours. I was replacing mine so I did not care and did not try to get them to seperate.
Try coating it with a penetraiting oil like wd-40 and let it sit over night. Or try heating it, I'd take a torch and heat up the outer tie rod end. And, try a large cresent wrench or similar, the bigger the better.
You do have the tire off the ground right? had to ask...
A couple of mine were frozen, but 100k miles is a lot more than yours. I was replacing mine so I did not care and did not try to get them to seperate.
