rear toe in

[david lewis]

i have measured the rear wheel alignment today and it is parallel at kerb weight  (+a full tank of petrol ) .apparently it should be 2mm toe out when unladen.

anyone know how many shims it would take to correct it to save me having to put the car back on its wheels and move it forward etc as i have the radius arms off now for rebushing.

cheers

[Pete Lewis]

Ive not seen any unladen toe settings for 13/60

 

all my manuals stick 150 lbs on ALL seats to get the static height then aim at 0 to 1.6mm toe in

 

 

pete

[david lewis]

hi pete,

i ggogled the question of settings and there is a answer that gives a table with laden and unladen settings for all spitfires which i believe should be the same for heralds or have i got it wrong again.

cheers

[Gully]

In the GT6 / Vitesse workshop manual there is a table giving the laden and unladen geometry figures. Interestingly, in the unladen state the rotoflex cars have the same front and rear toe figures, but in the laden state whilst the front toe is the same, the rear is greater on the GT6 - testament to different springs I guess. My point is that I don't think you can assume the Spitfire and Herald figures are the same.

 

Gully

[Pete Lewis]

There, s some fundament rear springing and camber differences on spitfires and then is this swinger or fixed data

even the tie rods run at a different angle so its not overly wise to assume they are the same

 

cant see any bonus in any toe out at the rear end,

 

so i would do it loaded then see what you have when you get back to kerb weight

 

pete