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[1976 clubamn]

i have just aquired some heavy duty tie rods and was wondering how you would go about setting them up? is there a specific way or do you just do it by eye?

cheers

[Pavel]

You take it to someone who has the equipment to do tracking and other suspension setup

[1976 clubamn]

makes sence. cheers.

[Joolsy]

Ello , I found this little guide on the Minispares website. It should get you rolling till you get it set up in a workshop properly.

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[TimS]

i set mine both completly equal as roughly to the std set up as i could, when measured it was found to be a +5degrees caster whihc is slightly more than the std but feels nice still! You may have a problem fiding places that will set caster, i found the bets place to try was BUSH tyres

[P91MER]

I have literally just fitted a set of these, along with some 1.5 -ve camber bottoms. The handling is a bit i dunno, wierd, first of all i set the tie rod to standard length, and it was almost as tho it tramlines. So then i lenghtened the tie rod by 2 turns to decrease the toe-in angle which has made it slightly better, but it still pulls wierdly.
It drifts slightly to the left aswel, me thinks i need my castor doing properly!

Will be ringing round tomorrow to get somebody to do it.

Or is it just because of the camber, makes the handling perform differently?