toe in wedge,s

[pablo]

had my sq baja a few months, had a crash the other week while out bashing resulting in a broken rear hub carrier, hyperpete saved the day and pulled a new carrier out of his bag, started fixing it when pete said look your toe in wedge,s are in the wrong way round, he was right so changed them round, put the wheels back on and put the car back on the floor.and it looked like there was way to much toe in so changed to the thinest wedge, have run the buggy a few times since but now the rear tyres are going out of shape on the outside edge, this never happend when the wedges were in the wrong way round, anyone else had this trouble,,

 

[dwarfy]

Turn em back round again The back wheels should toe-in a tad so they run parallel under load. If they are parallel at stand still they will toe out slightly under load & scrub the outside of the tyre me thinks! Might be wrong Add more toe-in & see what happens.

 

[pablo]

Turn em back round again The back wheels should toe-in a tad so they run parallel under load. If they are parallel at stand still they will toe out slightly under load & scrub the outside of the tyre me thinks! Might be wrong Add more toe-in & see what happens.

it could just be the standard dirtbuster tyres thet are a bit soft , just fitted proline bowtires they seem a lot harder compound,

 

[Rossco]

I had the same trouble with my tyres getting chewed out so I ditched the toe spacers permanately!!!

So I now run with zero toe and wouldn't have it any other way!!

 

[zouz10]

Toe is supposed to also help when you come out of a corner. I personally second what Rossco says and took the toe out.

Try a couple of setting with toe in and with no toe and see what you like the best for your driving style.


Chris

 

[pablo]

I had the same trouble with my tyres getting chewed out so I ditched the toe spacers permanately!!!

So I now run with zero toe and wouldn't have it any other way!!

yea i was thinking to just take them out, before they wreck my new tyres to,did you put any kind of other flat spacer in there to keep it the same width,??

 

[Rossco]

yea i was thinking to just take them out, before they wreck my new tyres to,did you put any kind of other flat spacer in there to keep it the same width,??

Nah,,,I just bolted them back together without the spacers,,,,,left a bit of a gap where the spacers used to be,,,no probs yet,,,been like it for 8-10 months now!