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Help Support Hardline Crawlers :
Toe in or not?
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crash2
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I set all of my rigs to 1/8" toe out.....
Cascade_Crawler
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1/8th in, no wear or handling issues...
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Mr Funbags
1/8" in...help with return to center and wandering issues on the hwy.
TMFabrication
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Why? To be different?:flipoff: Just wondering, I run my rig at 1/4 or so out, seems best for the deathwobble (yes, even with hydro, must be a SX thing) but normally I'd say 1/8" in.crash said:
crash2
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If you toe in you run the rist of over stering your front joints.
Here at work you typucally run 2 degrees of tow out----never ever toe in. toeing in causes the tires to fight each other on rutted surfaces.. This is not opinion this is an industry standard
Here at work you typucally run 2 degrees of tow out----never ever toe in. toeing in causes the tires to fight each other on rutted surfaces.. This is not opinion this is an industry standard
TMFabrication
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It makes sense, IIRC most of the alignment specs had slight toe-in. Are the newer vehicles different? Not trying to bust your balls, I agree that for off-road rigs slight toe out makes more sense and will be changing my alignments to toe-out
Just wondering about the on-road applications.
Just wondering about the on-road applications.
crash2
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TMFabrication said:It makes sense, IIRC most of the alignment specs had slight toe-in. Are the newer vehicles different? Not trying to bust your balls, I agree that for off-road rigs slight toe out makes more sense and will be changing my alignments to toe-out
All of the newer stuff is typically toed out. I don't do the alignments here at work(told them I refuse to do them,lol) but I have one of the guys under me do them since I have more important things to do but I do keep an eye on them and know what the specs are(granted they are a lil different for each aplication)..
One thing I have noticed toe out typically is more stable in the badly rutted roads we have in this state.. But every rig I have done had great on road characteristics...
crash said:
Tow out will where the insides of the tires out.If thats the case that all the new cars are towed out then now i understand as a tire tech that is why when i change tires on cars ,trucks why the tires are more worn on the inside of the tread.
