Thought I would share my winter project. Time had come to refresh the suspension and..while I was in there
I replaced all bushings, tie rod ends, ball joints, rebuilt the calipers, replaced the rotors, cleaned, sanded and painted the sway bars, A-arms, strut housings/spindle, belly pan, repaired a torn sway bar mount in the rear, cleaned up some surface rust under the battery and re-painted, cleaned up some surface rust in the drivers door jamb (everyone better pull up the threshold cover and look), replaced the pads and bled the brakes....shew!
On my first try, I got my torsion bars almost PERFECT...front was 24". A quick reindexing the front torsion bar cap and I set it at 25 1/2. Perfect.
So, today I decided to align the car and corner balance. A fellow pelican provided the corner scales. I was a little worried but decided to give it a try. My initial readings were toe out of just 1/8" too much on the front passengers side..easy fix. Caster was perfect. Can't believe the luck. The rear was a little differnt. Caster was in by 1/4" both sides...toe was positive by 3/16" on drivers side and 1/8" on passenger. I adjusted it and got it closer but I think I am going to take it to a shop to verify and adjust as needed.
On to corner balance: I had a little over 1/2 tank of gas and 200#'s in the drivers seat. A few turns on the drivers front adjustment gave me the following readings.
Drivers Front---------532
Passenger Front----544
Drivers Rear---------896
Passenger Rear----777
Total weight 2749#'s
...minus gas and sand bags, I am at around 2500#'s...super happy.
My car is basically a street car although my street driving is mostly all great mountain roads with an agressive driver behind the wheel. Running 16x7 Fuchs all around. 1" spacers in the rear; 205 front, 255 rear Conti DW's.
When I take my car in, what should I shoot for on the specs. I don't want a darty steering wheel and would like to at least get 20k on the fronts and 10k on the rears. Suggestions please....
thanks,
Ben