As the factory workshop manual says, it is only possible to adjust toe-in and
camber. Castor is fixed. It even says to put equal number of shims on each end
of the a-arms. I hope I didn't mislead anyone to think I would recommend playing
with uneven shims.
Vic Whitmore
76 Spitfire
Thornhill, Ontario
Nolan Penney wrote:
>
> I'd be *very* cautious about trying to tweak caster by using uneven numbers
>of shims
> mounting the lower control arm. That's a dandy way to break a trunion. The
> unparallel arcs that would result in the upper and lower control arms travel
>would
> cause bind in the trunion, encouraging the heck out of it to fail. That's why
> trunions were replaced by ball joints.
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