Mike Pierson
Hooked
So I’ve been having some terrible handling on the highway for some time now. Sometimes it’s even a white knuckled experience with severe wander. It will swing hard to one side of the lane and then it feels like the sway bar isn’t connected and it’ll dip, I’ll adjust and end up on the other side of the lane in a flash where the same thing will happen in repeat.
Back when I installed the new knuckles, synergy ball joints and control arms, I took it to the “best” steering shop in town to dial it in and give me a solid base going forward. I also had them adjust my caster to 6degs to counter the fairly bad spring bow I was having.
Well, 6 was feeling pretty awful so decided to return to factory caster and deal with the spring issue using Eddie’s Recent tip.
Anyway, I went to make the adjustment last night and found that it was set to 6.4 degrees and that all of my front control arms were at different lengths! The lowers were nearly 3/8 inch off and the uppers were off too, I guess to compensate? I don’t know how they could be so stupid.
I reset the lengths, set the caster to 4.5 degrees and went for a test drive. Feels so much better. There’s still a VERY slight wander that occurs pretty slowly compared to before. I’m going to check the rear control arms to make sure they’re square and then adjust the toe if needed.
Ugh… perhaps there’s finally a fix in the near future.
Back when I installed the new knuckles, synergy ball joints and control arms, I took it to the “best” steering shop in town to dial it in and give me a solid base going forward. I also had them adjust my caster to 6degs to counter the fairly bad spring bow I was having.
Well, 6 was feeling pretty awful so decided to return to factory caster and deal with the spring issue using Eddie’s Recent tip.
Anyway, I went to make the adjustment last night and found that it was set to 6.4 degrees and that all of my front control arms were at different lengths! The lowers were nearly 3/8 inch off and the uppers were off too, I guess to compensate? I don’t know how they could be so stupid.
I reset the lengths, set the caster to 4.5 degrees and went for a test drive. Feels so much better. There’s still a VERY slight wander that occurs pretty slowly compared to before. I’m going to check the rear control arms to make sure they’re square and then adjust the toe if needed.
Ugh… perhaps there’s finally a fix in the near future.
