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| Re: [GMCnet] Ride Height Adjustment [message #88094 is a reply to message #88081] |
Fri, 11 June 2010 16:30   |
Ken Burton
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Registered: January 2004
Location: Hebron, Indiana
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| Bob de Kruyff wrote on Fri, 11 June 2010 14:40 |
""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.
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Thanks Bob. Now I do not know what to think about the whole thing. I guess I'll leave mine where it is at the book recommended specs. I know that is also what Jim K. uses in his shop.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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