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Re: MG TD -- front end alignment

To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: MG TD -- front end alignment
From: "A. B. Bonds" <ab@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
Date: 10 Sep 1996 09:01:15 -0500
In <3234f44c.24119939@mail.CStone.NET>, John W. Dean wrote:
>Hi:
>
>Does anyone have experience with front end alignment on a TD?  I can't
>see any obvious provision for camber and caster adjustment.  I have a
>copy of a very old manual, which gives alignment specs, but gives no
>information on making the adjustment.  Is it simply a matter of
>replacing parts if the alignment is out?

More or less.  I found that some washers had been placed under one
side of one of my front shocks when I disassembled for rebuilding.
Given the paint pattern, these looked original, so I replaced them
when reassembling.  My guess is that the only adjustment, aside from
toe-in, involved shimming.

>Thanks in advance for whatever help you folks out there can give me.
>I'm new to this list, but I like it.  SOL appears to be amazingly well
>organized!
>
Please! Don't insult us! We are proceeding in the best of the British
traditions, which is Muddling Through.

                        A. B. Bonds


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