Toe in adjustment proceedure

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rogerowen

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I fitted new ball joints (one was completely knackered). Anyway, I counted the threads and put new ball joints on - but I've now got serious toe in and steering wheel is off centre. One of the ball joints was a bar steward to fit (had to help it on with a scaffold bar and lots of copper grease). To correct the toe in Mr Haynes tells me to slacken the ball joint clamps and rotate the track rod - but I can't see how you can do that as there is a braket holding a steering damper in place. Am I being really thick? Should I undo the steering damper first, then adjust to a point that the damper bracket is back in the right position? Have a nasty feeling that I might end up taking the ball joints out again (hoping not to damage the gaitors with my ball joint seperator), then trial and error till the wheels look resonably straight. Any Advice???:confused:
 
on drivers side track rod should have ball joint into small adjuster tube then into long tube so you dont need to adjust long tube with damper,hitting around threads will release them but it has to be all over area thread is held ,fwd have toe out ,rwd toe in ,4wd parallel
 
on drivers side track rod should have ball joint into small adjuster tube then into long tube so you dont need to adjust long tube with damper,hitting around threads will release them but it has to be all over area thread is held ,fwd have toe out ,rwd toe in ,4wd parallel

Got it! Brill, thanks a lot.

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