I've been rebuilding / restoring / refreshing / upgrading the suspension and steering on the Canary (My 1969 Porsche 911T) and while doing the DYI alignment I noticed the right rear wheel was poking out much further than the left. I couldn't seem to get my head around it as it was a significant amount. I tried everything, measuring with plumb lines over the fenders, pulling and poking trying to get the gap to the wheel hubs to be the same each side. I even pulled the whole rear suspension out again and started from scratch but kept getting the same result.
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I went ahead and did my DYI alignment which is a pain in the ass, two full days of frustration but seemed to turn out ok. Before going out for a drive I took the rear wheels off and did a bolt check. I thought let's run a plumb line from the inner structure to the trailing arm and measure each side, maybe something's bent but it was the same side to side.
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I then measured from the inner structure to the center of the rear fenders and found the problem. The left rear fender sticks out 5/8" more than the right! That's huge! Is that normal? The car has never been in an accident of any kind. I imagine there are some differences side to side in these older cars but really, over 1/2"!
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Thoughts?
Cheers,
-Kav.