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Post by Vodka Racing on Jan 26, 2009 12:22:05 GMT -7
We're required to have all four wheels touching so I'm looking for repair ideas.
On both of our pack derby cars the front right wheel is not touching when using the prepped wheels and axles. The wheel was barely touching when using a set of test wheels and axles before body cutting and painting. The prepped wheels have a larger wheel diameter so I'm guessing the offset is with the inner hub diameter and/or axle diameter. All four axles holes were canted for negative camber using the Block and supplied pin.
One idea is putting a slight positive camber bend in the front right axle to lower the wheel slightly. Thanks for your suggestions!
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Post by 2FAST4U on Jan 26, 2009 22:42:15 GMT -7
We're required to have all four wheels touching so I'm looking for repair ideas. On both of our pack derby cars the front right wheel is not touching when using the prepped wheels and axles. The wheel was barely touching when using a set of test wheels and axles before body cutting and painting. The prepped wheels have a larger wheel diameter so I'm guessing the offset is with the inner hub diameter and/or axle diameter. All four axles holes were canted for negative camber using the Block and supplied pin. One idea is putting a slight positive camber bend in the front right axle to lower the wheel slightly. Thanks for your suggestions! where the test wheels out of the box or where they lathed and trued... i would just put a positive cant on the front wheel that needs to touch and make it the Dom wheel and have the other front wheel just verily touch...
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Post by Vodka Racing on Jan 27, 2009 0:38:23 GMT -7
i would just put a positive cant on the front wheel that needs to touch and make it the Dom wheel and have the other front wheel just verily touch... How is this better than just leaving the FDW as the FDW by only putting a slight bend into the current Non-FDW so that the Non-FDW just touches barely? Although we have to run four wheels touching, I was still going to steer the car so it rail rides. The front body has already been narrowed at the current FDW side and I had planned on adding bend at the current FDW for steering. If I was to pivot the axle so the bend is both toe-in and negative camber, that may lower the front enough so the current raised wheel would touch the surface. Do you see any problem with adding negative cant to an axle in a negative canted axle hole?
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Post by 2FAST4U on Jan 27, 2009 1:02:43 GMT -7
Nope, you should be fine...
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