Alignment Spec Questions, another alignment thread Options

[John]

I have a few questions that some of you smart people out there might be kind enough to answer for me.

I am wondering how you convert angular toe-in (per factory specs) to inches of toe-in.

I could convert angles to inches if I knew where to measure. Is the toe-in measured at the rim, at the tread, at the sidewall?

Or am I reading the chart from the factory manuals incorrectly?

What are the "factory" settings for:

Front Caster
Front Camber
Front Toe

Rear Camber
Rear Toe


On another note, RIDE HEIGHT.........

The front ride height is measured as the DIFFERENCE between the center of the torsion bar and the center of the wheel rim.

How is the rear ride height supposed to be measured, and what is the 'spec'?????

Thanks for replying.

[Dave_Darling]

QUOTE (JOHNMAN @ Mar 17 2005, 11:12 PM)

What is the "factory" rear ride height? How do you measure it? How low can you go? (Until the rear axles are horizontal?)

The factory setup is in the manual. It has to do with the difference between the centerline of the wheel (I think) and the centerline of the torsion bar. It's a convoluted way of measuring it, to be sure...

You can go as low as you like, until you start scraping... It's very unnerving, BTW, to drive out of a parking lot through the spring-loaded "Severe Tire Damage" spikes and have them scrape their way along the bottom of the car's floor pan. Ask Birgit, she heard mine do that at Parade in Ft. Worth!

The general consensus seems to be that you shouldn't go any lower than having the A-arms parallel to the ground. Ditto the trailing arms. I would prefer a little higher than that, even.

--DD