Mark Krieger
10-17-2004, 19:05
Does anyone have any experience with solid front axels that they can share?
I've got a retired USPS Parcel Delivery Van and I've been slowly fixing up the dozens of little things that are wrong or worn out.
The steering wheel is crooked. By this, I mean that I need to point the wheel at 1:00 to go straight down the road. If I let go of the wheel it drifts back toward 12:00 but then I head for the right ditch.
There's at least three places to get the wheel crooked without actually messing up the alignment so I'm not sure where the trouble is.
Today I decided to seperate the driver's side of the front axle from the leaf-springs and slide it back a quarter-Inch. I figured this would correct the steering wheel and eliminate the preference for the right ditch at the same time. It looks like there's a rivet or an alignment pin that determines where the axle sits on the springs so I couldn't make the change.
Does anybody have anything they'd like to enlighten me with?
I've got a retired USPS Parcel Delivery Van and I've been slowly fixing up the dozens of little things that are wrong or worn out.
The steering wheel is crooked. By this, I mean that I need to point the wheel at 1:00 to go straight down the road. If I let go of the wheel it drifts back toward 12:00 but then I head for the right ditch.
There's at least three places to get the wheel crooked without actually messing up the alignment so I'm not sure where the trouble is.
Today I decided to seperate the driver's side of the front axle from the leaf-springs and slide it back a quarter-Inch. I figured this would correct the steering wheel and eliminate the preference for the right ditch at the same time. It looks like there's a rivet or an alignment pin that determines where the axle sits on the springs so I couldn't make the change.
Does anybody have anything they'd like to enlighten me with?