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Re: [GMCnet] Ride Height Adjustment [message #88081 is a reply to message #88022]

Fri, 11 June 2010 14:40

Bob de Kruyff

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Location: Chandler, AZ

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""I wish we could find some GM authoritative source that said that the front axles should be level. Another possibility would be to find someone with 16.5 bias ply tires that have their front ride height set correctly to the book specs. Then we could put a level on their axles and verify if they are suppose to be level. Good luck on finding that one. ""

Ken, for the life of me I just don't understand where that all came from. I never worked on the GMC but I was a chassis engineer on almost all of GM's FWD cars and unless it was by accident, there was never any need or requirement to have the axle shafts level while at ride height. Ride height is the driver to everything else associated with it. Much more important than drive shaft angles is the toe change curve and where you are within that curve at normal driving speed. Yes the front inner CV joints have a limited range of acceptable angles, but if the ride height is to spec, everything else will be, not the other way around.

Bob de Kruyff
78 Eleganza
Chandler, AZ

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		[GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: Mr ERFisher on Tue, 16 December 2008 07:43
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: USAussie on Tue, 16 December 2008 08:03
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: Mr ERFisher on Tue, 16 December 2008 08:13
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: Bob de Kruyff on Tue, 16 December 2008 09:20
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: Surbo on Tue, 16 December 2008 10:27
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: GMCWiperMan on Tue, 16 December 2008 16:53
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: Bob de Kruyff on Thu, 10 June 2010 21:16
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: Rick Denney on Tue, 16 December 2008 11:33
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: mike miller on Tue, 16 December 2008 15:21
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: jw mills on Tue, 16 December 2008 18:42
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: GMCWiperMan on Tue, 16 December 2008 19:22
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: GMCWiperMan on Tue, 16 December 2008 17:51
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: gmchunter on Tue, 16 December 2008 10:02
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: Mr ERFisher on Tue, 16 December 2008 10:40
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: Keith V on Tue, 16 December 2008 10:59
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: GMCWiperMan on Tue, 16 December 2008 18:14
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: Mr ERFisher on Tue, 16 December 2008 18:34
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: Keith V on Tue, 16 December 2008 19:59
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: Rick Denney on Wed, 17 December 2008 12:31
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: Keith V on Wed, 17 December 2008 13:05
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: emerystora on Tue, 16 December 2008 13:04
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: gmchunter on Tue, 16 December 2008 11:13
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment (photosite) By: Tom Fort on Wed, 17 December 2008 14:39
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment (photosite) By: Tin Gerbil on Wed, 17 December 2008 14:41
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: Tom Fort on Wed, 17 December 2008 14:40
		Re: [GMCnet] Ride Height Adjustment By: kenneth hugelier on Thu, 10 June 2010 08:10
		Re: [GMCnet] Ride Height Adjustment By: Dennis S on Thu, 10 June 2010 08:21
		Re: [GMCnet] Ride Height Adjustment By: C Boyd on Thu, 10 June 2010 08:26
		Re: [GMCnet] Ride Height Adjustment By: Ken Burton on Fri, 11 June 2010 00:30
		Re: [GMCnet] Ride Height Adjustment By: USAussie on Fri, 11 June 2010 01:17
		Re: [GMCnet] Ride Height Adjustment By: Ken Burton on Fri, 11 June 2010 10:09
		Re: [GMCnet] Ride Height Adjustment By: USAussie on Fri, 11 June 2010 10:22
		Re: [GMCnet] Ride Height Adjustment By: Ken Burton on Fri, 11 June 2010 13:32
		Re: [GMCnet] Ride Height Adjustment By: Bob de Kruyff on Fri, 11 June 2010 14:40
		Re: [GMCnet] Ride Height Adjustment By: Ken Burton on Fri, 11 June 2010 16:30
		Re: [GMCnet] Ride Height Adjustment By: kenneth hugelier on Fri, 11 June 2010 11:16
		Re: [GMCnet] Ride Height Adjustment By: USAussie on Fri, 11 June 2010 15:43
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: RF_Burns on Fri, 11 June 2010 14:33
		Re: [GMCnet] ride height adjustment By: Bob de Kruyff on Fri, 11 June 2010 14:51

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