cadreamn67
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grelley,
Thanks so much for posting the pictures.
I still need a some help in understanding the mods and what you had before making things so much better. Candidly, your current setup seems to be very similar to mine (which followed the tigersunited Ackerman Angle tech article, except for the Mobil I grease).
Respectfully, the difference I see is the spherical joint instead of the Alpine tie-rod end. Like mine, the ball joint is attached to the underside of the steering arm. Were yours on the top side before?
Did you switch the steering arms so the one marked "Left" is now mounted on the right side and the one marked "Right" on the left side?
If I understand it correctly, you machined a shim of some sort to fill the tapered hole in the steering arm so that a straight bolt would fit firmly into the tie rod attachment end of arm. If so, how were you able to replicate the taper angle for the "shim" part you made? It is a pretty odd angle as I remember reading once.
Now I am going to go out on a limb. I cannot help but wonder if you would get even better results if you were to put the spherical joint on the top side of the steering arm? Would that make everything more horizontal with the rack in a static, at rest, wheels on the ground mode? If so, that might minimize the change in toe-in caused by a wheel moving up and down. At least equalize the effect whether the wheel is going up or down.
I am nowhere close to being a chassis engineer, so my apologies for even suggesting something I know nothing about! But if it did help things, you would be taking the MG rack conversion another step beyond what any of the rest of us have.
Regardless, I, for one, greatly appreciate your work and your sharing it with the rest of us. Thanks for doing that, and for any additional info you can provide per the above.
Gene
Thanks so much for posting the pictures.
I still need a some help in understanding the mods and what you had before making things so much better. Candidly, your current setup seems to be very similar to mine (which followed the tigersunited Ackerman Angle tech article, except for the Mobil I grease).
Respectfully, the difference I see is the spherical joint instead of the Alpine tie-rod end. Like mine, the ball joint is attached to the underside of the steering arm. Were yours on the top side before?
Did you switch the steering arms so the one marked "Left" is now mounted on the right side and the one marked "Right" on the left side?
If I understand it correctly, you machined a shim of some sort to fill the tapered hole in the steering arm so that a straight bolt would fit firmly into the tie rod attachment end of arm. If so, how were you able to replicate the taper angle for the "shim" part you made? It is a pretty odd angle as I remember reading once.
Now I am going to go out on a limb. I cannot help but wonder if you would get even better results if you were to put the spherical joint on the top side of the steering arm? Would that make everything more horizontal with the rack in a static, at rest, wheels on the ground mode? If so, that might minimize the change in toe-in caused by a wheel moving up and down. At least equalize the effect whether the wheel is going up or down.
I am nowhere close to being a chassis engineer, so my apologies for even suggesting something I know nothing about! But if it did help things, you would be taking the MG rack conversion another step beyond what any of the rest of us have.
Regardless, I, for one, greatly appreciate your work and your sharing it with the rest of us. Thanks for doing that, and for any additional info you can provide per the above.
Gene