Reading your alignment spec sheet
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Reading your alignment spec sheet
Ok. Did the alignment shop screw up or do I just not understand how to read the spec sheet from the alignment shop.
I asked for a 1/16 toe in on each side in the front, and 1/8 toe in on each side in the rear (using David Farmers suggestion).
The spec sheet indicates +0.13 degrees total toe in the front (+.07 and +.06), and the rear indicates -.20 degrees total toe in the rear (-.09 and -.11). I would interpret the front as being toe OUT. And if that's backwards, then I've got toe OUT in the rear. Third option is neither, and I just don't know how to read the spec. :crazy:
Didn't really hit me until I was on my way home, and the shop had already closed for the day. Does it get fixed tommorrow, or am I a retard?
Steve
I asked for a 1/16 toe in on each side in the front, and 1/8 toe in on each side in the rear (using David Farmers suggestion).
The spec sheet indicates +0.13 degrees total toe in the front (+.07 and +.06), and the rear indicates -.20 degrees total toe in the rear (-.09 and -.11). I would interpret the front as being toe OUT. And if that's backwards, then I've got toe OUT in the rear. Third option is neither, and I just don't know how to read the spec. :crazy:
Didn't really hit me until I was on my way home, and the shop had already closed for the day. Does it get fixed tommorrow, or am I a retard?
Steve
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Re: Reading your alignment spec sheet (sknight)
They look pretty good to me. The .06 and the .07 are the decimal equivalents of the 1/16 fraction. Divide the top number of the fraction 1 by the bottom number 16 and you get .0625. That means they are within .0025 and .0075 of perfect . Take the .06 and.07 and add them togeather and you get .013 for the total toe in they give. Basicly to get much closer they'd have to start sanding shims and take a week to get it perfect. The back if off a little more but still pretty good. They missed perfect by .035 and .014. Hope this helped
Bob
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Re: Reading your alignment spec sheet (sknight)
the alignment standard is for toe-in to be positive and toe-out to be negative. It makes sense if you think about it. Few factory cars are ever recommended to use toe-out, so it is a negative reading.
BTW, the angular conversion of the front toe is very close to what you requested, but the rear is too low, and toe-out to boot. It should make for some great powerslides exiting the turns though :)
Unfortunately the avg alignment jockey is in the same leauge as the avg tire mounting jockey; their expertise is barely good enough for your father's Oldsmobile.
Mark
[Modified by TeamZ06, 12:55 AM 9/20/2002]
BTW, the angular conversion of the front toe is very close to what you requested, but the rear is too low, and toe-out to boot. It should make for some great powerslides exiting the turns though :)
Unfortunately the avg alignment jockey is in the same leauge as the avg tire mounting jockey; their expertise is barely good enough for your father's Oldsmobile.
Mark
[Modified by TeamZ06, 12:55 AM 9/20/2002]
