Alignment shop butchered her, help!!!
06-05-2005, 02:04 AM
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Alignment shop butchered her, help!!!
BACKGROUND: (question below)
After three days at the alignment shop, I'm in trouble. NO Porsche specialist within a hundred miles and after installing a full new suspension and bearings couldn't drive her far.
She went in with randomn alignment specs that were just roughed in with a Longacre toe in gauge and screw & level technique for camber. Looked good, drove a little funny since there was no relation front to rear
Got her back with little to no rear camber after three days of phone conversations and correcting their 1/32 per rear toe from their .32 per rear for a total of .64! They even called me on day two saying they had trouble getting over 1 degree of positive camber in the rear. I know, I should have ran but instead I corrected them and let them proceed.
QUESTION:
Sorry for length, but stick with me. They in their idiotic efforts die grinded the slots for the eccentric bolts on the spring plates. So I need to weld the plates up to near factory shape. To get more camber how am I trying to move the spring plate in relation to the trailing arm. Do I want the eccentric lifting the the spring plate by pushing up on the slot? Therefore I should weld in the top of the slot where ground or the bottom for a camber increase?
I'm just trying to figure out which surface the eccentric is riding against to apply more camber (top or bottom). TIA for your time.
Why couldn't they just have said.....I don't know my a$$ from an eccentric slot.
After three days at the alignment shop, I'm in trouble. NO Porsche specialist within a hundred miles and after installing a full new suspension and bearings couldn't drive her far.
She went in with randomn alignment specs that were just roughed in with a Longacre toe in gauge and screw & level technique for camber. Looked good, drove a little funny since there was no relation front to rear
Got her back with little to no rear camber after three days of phone conversations and correcting their 1/32 per rear toe from their .32 per rear for a total of .64! They even called me on day two saying they had trouble getting over 1 degree of positive camber in the rear. I know, I should have ran but instead I corrected them and let them proceed.
QUESTION:
Sorry for length, but stick with me. They in their idiotic efforts die grinded the slots for the eccentric bolts on the spring plates. So I need to weld the plates up to near factory shape. To get more camber how am I trying to move the spring plate in relation to the trailing arm. Do I want the eccentric lifting the the spring plate by pushing up on the slot? Therefore I should weld in the top of the slot where ground or the bottom for a camber increase?
I'm just trying to figure out which surface the eccentric is riding against to apply more camber (top or bottom). TIA for your time.
Why couldn't they just have said.....I don't know my a$$ from an eccentric slot.
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Contact Bob Farmer at Farmer's Automotive
Greenfield, IN 46140
317-894-8185
I think that he uses Indy Tire In Greenfield to do most of his alignments.
INDY TIRE CENTER
9302 E 30TH ST INDIANAPOLIS IN 46229
Phone: (317) 545-5505 Fax: (317) 541-2459
Greenfield, IN 46140
317-894-8185
I think that he uses Indy Tire In Greenfield to do most of his alignments.
INDY TIRE CENTER
9302 E 30TH ST INDIANAPOLIS IN 46229
Phone: (317) 545-5505 Fax: (317) 541-2459
