What? If he measured high negative camber, what does this have to do with caster or toe? The sway bar is the only thing that sets the caster on the front tires, so a damaged sway bar bushing or damaged crumple tube will definitely affect caster. Regarding the problem though, reading tires is an art- just because your camber of off, fixing it might not solve the problem. Toe and other things can cause the tire to wear unevenly. Jim > In terms of the "camber" issue, I would remove the rubber donut > bushings from the sway bar to lower control arm connections on both > sides. I think that you will find that the rear-most bushings are > shot. The rubber tears away from the steel sleeve, and this allows > the lower control arm to drift back, creating the illusion of toe- > out. Your caster will be off as well. It's not really a caster > problem. I replaced my bushings (which were as I described above) > with custom polyurethane bushings. It made all the difference. > > Toby Peterson VIN 2248 (Winged1) > Delorean Parts Northwest, LLC > www.delorean-parts.com > > > --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andrew <aos+yahoo@xxxx> wrote: > > Okay, I replaced the steering rack today, but things didn't go > quite as > > smoothly as I'd planned, so hopefully I can get a litte input from > > some > > who have been there... > > > > 1) It seems to be impossible to get my steering wheel to line up > in its > > default position. If I line the steering wheel up, the wheels are > > off by > > enough that one of the two tie rod ends has to be run waaaaaay > out, and > > the other one cannot go far enough in to correct the error on that > > side. > > Spinning the wheel 360 degrees generates the same problem in the > opposite > > direction. > > > > Because of the flat sections on the splines in the universal > joint, there > > is only one way (per 360 degree revolution) that the joint can be > > assembled. Once assembled in any of the possible ways, however, > the > > adjustment necessary to generate some semblance of alignment is > beyond the > > range of the adjustable parts. > > > > Am I missing something basic here? Or is this rebuilt rack > manufactured > > differently enough from the old one that the wheel needs to be > pulled and > > reinstalled? I don't particularly mind if that's what I have to > do, as > > I'd really like to get it recovered anyway. > > > > 2) Hopefully I've just done a poor job of eyeballing the > alignment, but > > when I try to drive down the street (having reconnected everything > > nicely > > with the steering while simply turned about 120 degrees wrong), > the car > > has a very strong desire to steer extremely quickly toward the > nearest > > curb. Is this just the result of too much toe out? > > > > 3) I seem to have big camber problems. This isn't really related > to the > > steering rack install, but now is when I noticed it. When I > pulled off > > the wheels, I saw that my tires are worn very unevenly, almost > entirely on > > the inside, and once I buttoned everything back up and looked, it > looks > > like my camber is about two degrees negative, which is way more > than what > > it should be (manual says 0.5). The worrying part of this, > however, is > > that camber is not adjustable on this car. Anyone know what's > wrong here? > > > > Thanks. > > > > -andrew > > #4115 > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DMCForum/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DMCForum/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/