Alrighty, back from St George Steering. Gee John knows his stuff!
The front is very good he said, even for a Deluxe/K. He says he's quite surprised that it is that good as he has seen shocking front ends even from factory
Chuffed about that, but he mentioned that I needed new control arm bushes and a new steering rack bush. Will look into that pretty quickly I'd say
Otherwise the front is in good nick.
The rear on the other hand, not so good
He checked the subframe and it's probably a mm off at most on right but he says the right rear is well out of alignment, it was off the scale and he could not measure it
He says this is definately a bent rear right trailing arm and suggests that I rebuild one and install that before having a look at the rest of the back end.
The camber on the rear right is 30minutes positive
where as the rear is 25minutes negative (spot on). Golly the rear trailing arm must be bent in more than one dimension
That would explain alot! The total toe in the rear is 3/16 toed out. But he says that will change once I rebuid the rear right...
So there you have it, crabbing it is for sure, but driveable.
He also told me something interesting: 36psi at the front, 30psi at the rears. Don't listen to everyone else, that's what you should set them up to. Roger that sir
Anyone have a spare right hydro trailing arm?
) at the local wreckers to remove the suspension in a few days,
