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[Healeys] Suspension issues, was AH 100 first driving impressions

To: Josef.Eckert@t-systems.com, healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: [Healeys] Suspension issues, was AH 100 first driving impressions
From: Tadeusz Malkiewicz <tadeusz.malkiewicz@plusnet.pl>
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:10:39 +0200
Josef,

You may be very right...

I will have to check the geometry of the chassis when I will start to
disassemble the car to do the paint job & body repairs on it.

Thank you all for advice & help!..

Tadek

-----Original Message-----
From: Josef.Eckert@t-systems.com [mailto:Josef.Eckert@t-systems.com]
Sent: 4 lipca 2008 19:30
To: tadeusz.malkiewicz@plusnet.pl; healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: AW: [Healeys] AH 100 first driving impressions - Boy this is
fun!...


 Tadek,
Your thoughts are the same as mine were, when I realized the misalignment
first. Then I started a thorough investigation and did lots of frame
measurements and even realized that the right hand front wheel was 1.5cm
further to the back than the left hand. It was only visible when you
compared the wheel arches and contours of the wheels in the arch. During
this checks I saw very minor signs of an accident, which was repaired I
expect some 10 years before I bought the car in 1986. At the end it turned
out that the lower wishbone mounts were replaced and welded back to the
wrong places and with slightly wrong angle. So it was some work to get the
suspension right again.
Now to the precision of the factory work. I think the alignment was quite
good, compared to the body work. My right hand door on my BN1 is 1cm longer
than the left hand door! Both doors are the original doors.
I also have a accident free 1962 BT7, with most of its original panels on
the car. The alignment of the front suspension of this Healey is perfect. So
I assume the quality some 6 years ago was not that bad, as you realize it on
your car.
Put your car on a pit or lifter to check and measure all distances and check
for accident damage and you may find an answer to your questions.

Josef Eckert
Koenigswinter/Germany

-----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Tadeusz Malkiewicz [mailto:tadeusz.malkiewicz@plusnet.pl]
Gesendet: Freitag, 4. Juli 2008 19:02
An: Eckert, Josef; healeys@autox.team.net
Betreff: RE: [Healeys] AH 100 first driving impressions - Boy this is
fun!...

Well,

Please correct me if I am wrong, but the camber really signifies the
relation of the upper and lower truunion while looking from the front of the
car. This really means there is a triangle between the upper and lower
trueunion

|\0 <--upper truunion
| \
|  \
|   \
|    \
|_____\O  <-- lower truunion

The angle at the top of that triangle should be 1deg. The distance between
the top and lower truunion is about 22cm. This means that the lower edge of
the triangle should be almost 4mm. (if I remember my trigonometry correctly)

My triangle is the other way, moved 2mm to the outside.

This means my left side is 6mm off.

The question is - was this due to accident or was it the way the cars were
produced??..

How precisely were the cars manufactured as far as the frame is
concerned??...

What are the tolerances for these setups?


Thanks, Tadek
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