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Originally Posted by Jack Jenkins
I removed 7 springs and it seems like everything is going together good. I do have some hangers and the ends of the wishbones hanging on the frame. My caster is about 0 degrees so I am going to raise up the ends of the wishbones
and hope that will give me the 7 degrees I need.
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Jack ..... NOT to criticize your efforts, but God only knows that ALL of us had to start-out by learning the basics. It seems that you are confusing POSITIVE CASTER with Negative Caster. POSITIVE CASTER will have the TOP of your I-beam axle leaning farther toward the REAR of the car than the BOTTOM of your axle. Think of it in theory like looking at the front forks on a bicycle. The forks lean toward the rear AT THE TOP. That is POSITIVE caster.
To INCREASE your POS caster toward the (+)7º that you're looking for, you would need to LOWER the REAR end of your radius rods.
BELOW is an exaggerated drawing showing both a "pie cut", as well as the POSITIVE Caster direction that you're looking for. Hoping this helps somewhat!
Coop
