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Not sure about that as the PO (between Doc and I) had a bit of a play. Right rear is a mess! I guess we'll see come this weekend.

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Barney has a heap of neg camber on the rear and God knows what the toe-in there is.
I instructed the PO how to mod the fixed brackets, but he went a bit far!!! :P
Noooooo, I never touched it, as handling was OK (for a dry car):twisted:

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A little too much toe-in me thinks. Will probably back the camber off a bit too. Front will be running about 1.5 deg negative with a smidge of toe out.

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I am currently building the rear subframe for my van, and I will be making adjustable brackets out of the factory brackets, ill post some pics when there done.

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drmini in aust wrote:
Barney has a heap of neg camber on the rear and God knows what the toe-in there is.
I instructed the PO how to mod the fixed brackets, but he went a bit far!!! :P
Noooooo, I never touched it, as handling was OK (for a dry car):twisted:


Any more on that doc?

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mattsmadmini wrote:
drmini in aust wrote:
Barney has a heap of neg camber on the rear and God knows what the toe-in there is.
I instructed the PO how to mod the fixed brackets, but he went a bit far!!! :P
Noooooo, I never touched it, as handling was OK (for a dry car):twisted:


Any more on that doc?

1. Get wheel alignment at rear checked for EACH side.
2. Do some trigonometry to calculate how far up to move the hole.
3. Don't be surprised if the hole also needs moving forwards to eliminate toe-out. Many old crabbing Minis have this problem, even with no shims between the subby and bracket. A solution (if nothing seems bent) is to move the hole forward a few mm then add some shims for adjustment.

I have successfully fixed a few ausmini cars after they went to several well known and respected wheel aligners to stop rear end crabbing, and got the `sorry cannot fix' treatment.

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I have also fitted the minispares brackets.... I had to file the holes to get the toe in and camber settings I wanted.

Whan't hard, just took a far bit of fiddling.

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