Insufficient Front Caster

[Lembomw]

Brent/Skip, thank you for your responses.

With about 3/8 inch between points a and b I am guessing that the degrees of caster is maybe 1.5. I do not have any experience with suspensions, but the way I read your post, with 0 degrees caster it would be easier to steer but it will be more difficult for the car to want to track straight? I am very reluctant to even try to let go of the steering wheel as it does want to dart all over the place and I need to “muscle” the steering wheel to keep it going straight. Perhaps since the toe in needs adjusting and the tie rod is not straight are adding to the steering difficulties since when I stand back from the front of the car and look at the front end it looks like the fronts of the tires are pointing out instead of in. That is not good. When I do the toe in measuring process it looks like in order to get the 1/16 inch wider measurement in the back I need to adjust them out at least ¼ inch……after I get a new tie rod.

The Tudor cam with the '35 wheels. I don’t remember the size of the tires, but they are the largest I could put on the rims so that they would be the same diameter as a stock Model A tire. I have no idea how the bigger tires affect the steering.

The front spring is new so that would decrease the camber from what you indicate. The spindle arm on the passenger side is new, the other side looked OK, short pitman arm is new, all new guts in the tie rod ends and drag link (put the Teflon cup kit in for easy steering).

So from what I have been reading, if I want the car to track straight down the road I need to increase the degrees of camber. Any suggestions on how I can do that? Seems like this is where one of the old time front end shops as Skip has indicated would need to bend the beam so that the top is out farther than it is now in order to get the 5 degrees?

Mark