jimm
1993 GL
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Post by jimm on Aug 1, 2008 17:38:09 GMT -5
I've been too lazy to check my alignment settings on my 93 AWD Justy even though visually I can see I have too much negative camber in the front. I could have some toe in or out as well but as I said I haven't measured it yet.
My new RE92 tires that are a bit over a year old now have significant wear on the inside front tires. I finally got around to rotating them to the back and wish I had done so a bit sooner.
My real questions here are, is it a known thing for the front springs to sag enough to cause this? I believe the front struts were replaced at one time and I'm just wondering now if they were wrongly replaced with 1st gen struts (maybe they are shorter but still fit?), is this even possible?
Tires are hard enough to find for this car so I'd like to fix this problem sometime soon.
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Post by Armageddous on Aug 1, 2008 20:43:14 GMT -5
My front springs broke in half... -Terry
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Post by gearheadeh on Aug 1, 2008 22:52:17 GMT -5
I beleive that the suspention on these super light cars is very fragile and sensitive to things like hitting parking barriers a little too hard.I beleive this pushes the tires back and giving it toe out, so much toe out that you can see it when looking down the side of the car.The rod that the front swaybar attaches to can be refreshed with bushings to help correct this maybe!.
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jimm
1993 GL
Posts: 63
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Post by jimm on Aug 5, 2008 12:13:50 GMT -5
I can normally visually see if the toe is quite a bit out but it doesn't appear to be, I will measure it soon and verify though. But I can see that it has a lot of camber in the front compared to the rear, viusually 0 degrees rear and at least -2 in the front.
That's why I wondered it there was a difference between the two generations front struts and the possibility that whowever changed the front ones (they have been changed) used the early ones instead. I just don't want to end up buying new springs only to find out it wasn't the springs fault.
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jimm
1993 GL
Posts: 63
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Post by jimm on Oct 30, 2008 16:07:05 GMT -5
Well I finally got around to measuring toe on the front of my Justy. Turns out I had 3/8" toe out so that is probably the biggest reason for my inside edge of the front tires wearing too fast.
Dialed it back to 1/16" toe in and it feels pretty good. Bet I see a bit better gas mileage too.
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Post by condorrockbilly on Oct 31, 2008 13:05:36 GMT -5
Took my justy on it's maiden voyage last yesterday way out in the desert. Did great considering it was on trails meant for trucks fun to hill climb with i took a couple photos i'll post later. One problem was when we left made it out just fine then when i got to the road i friggin went a little too fast around a turn and whacked the passenger side rear tire on a rock and now my camber is screwed, As we all know you can't really fix that. Any suggestions? I just had my alignment fixed too funny how i was so careful until the end
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jimm
1993 GL
Posts: 63
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Post by jimm on Oct 31, 2008 14:57:56 GMT -5
Too bad. Must have bent something. Not too many things it could be in my opinion. Normally lower control arm or the spindle. Your car must be 4wd so I don't think the spindle could be bent without having the wheel wobble, so my vote is for a bent lower control arm. You might be able to see the damage compared to the other side. Good luck!
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Post by condorrockbilly on Nov 1, 2008 13:05:34 GMT -5
should be fun ...
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