| weight effect on steering [message #195457] |
Sun, 13 January 2013 15:45  |
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Registered: September 2011
Location: Winter Haven,FL (center o...
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Been tightening up my steering and thought I had it pretty well worked out with some items and ideals from Mr. Lenzi and I noticed when my fuel got below half it would go back to it's old habits of trying to wander and wheel had to be to the right a little to go straight. It drove very well with full fuel tank to just above half. Left the campground with about 3/4 black tank because cable guy was blocking dump site, but that weight to the rear didn't make any difference. Couldn't fill up fuel completely, nonethanol pump didn't work today, so put in only 10 gallons, 60lbs, and that little bit made the steering clean up and wheel was back to dead center when straight ahead. Had this with previous SOB but it got better when fuel got below 1/2 tank. It's tank was behind the axle.
I've got the air bag valves on travel and it seems to be counteracting weight changes, you can put my 200+ on one side or the other and you can hear the air flowing through the valves and the gauges on the dash show the pressure change.
Honest, I'm not hallucinating.
Any ideals, no matter how far out, would be appreciated.
Also learned today with the mark/sully airbag setup(I built my own brackets, did not get from sully)You can collapse a bag so far that it will collapse into itself and block the inlet so you have to jack up the bogie to uncover inlet and let the air in.
Skip Hartline
74 Canyon Lands, FiTech,
3.7 FD LSD, Manny Tranny,
Springfield Distributor,
2001 Chevy Tracker Ragtop Towd
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