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Re: Rear wheel steering

To: trevorwj@insightbb.com
Subject: Re: Rear wheel steering
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 19:17:08 -0600
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
Bearings tight, no wheel wobble?

On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:11:32 +0000 trevorwj@insightbb.com writes:
> Front spring hangers firmly in place? Not rusted and flexing?
> 
> 
> > I am baffled.
> > 69 Midget with everything new on the suspension except maybe the 
> 1/2 
> > leaf springs.
> > Let off the gas and the rear end twitches like it has a busted 
> leaf spring.
> > Under very careful examination, there is no broken leafs. Infact, 
> the 
> > springs are very nice and may have even been new with all the 
> other 
> > parts that came on this car. New but up to 20 years old but never 
> 
> > driven. It now has 30 miles on it.
> > Bushings are new looking, as are the bolts but it has been sprayed 
> black 
> > at one time and then I shot it all with undercoating.
> > It also has a Wheel Wright tube shock conversion.
> > This setup looks like a who designed it and ran setup. I don't 
> like it 
> > one bit. I can see where the top of the tube shox are not fully 
> home in 
> > the mount, they can twist in the hole where the lever shox mount.
> > Do you think this is the cause?
> > Remember, this is the Midget where the PO redesigned just about 
> every 
> > part and system on the car, none of which he thought thru and ALL 
> of it 
> > had to be put back to right.
> > If anyone has a rear tube shock setup, could you please look under 
> there 
> > at the top of the shock and tell me if there is a spacer or 
> something to 
> > keep the shock from twisting.
> > And if you do have this, does your shock head hit the mount?
> > You know, designed by someone who never really tried it.
> > -- 
> > Frank Clarici
> > Toms River, NJ




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