Tracking Toe??

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HuN73R

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I am having to take my landy to a commercial vehical garage to get the trackin sorted after bending the fook out of my steering arms last week.
Can anyone tell me what the toe should be for the tracking on my 1986 LR90?

Thanks in advance!
 
toe angle? TOE ANGLE??

I wouldn't have a toe angle on a non performance car.. there's no point!

Toe in gives you better straight line stability, but decreases corner entry response. Wears the outer edge of the tyre.

Toe out gives better corner entry response, but decreases straight line stability (ya be constantly twitchin the wheel to keep it straight on the road) Wears the inner edge of the tyre.

I'd go with 0 deg.
 
TheVengefulElephant said:
toe angle? TOE ANGLE??

I wouldn't have a toe angle on a non performance car.. there's no point!

Toe in gives you better straight line stability, but decreases corner entry response. Wears the outer edge of the tyre.

Toe out gives better corner entry response, but decreases straight line stability (ya be constantly twitchin the wheel to keep it straight on the road) Wears the inner edge of the tyre.

I'd go with 0 deg.
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Your right, but...


When you are driving, the combined turning effort from the axles, and the drag caused by the tyres, means that stationary tracking is different to rolling tracking


So, in a LR, which i can assure you doesn't have steering anything like a performance car, you gotta set the tracking so that when you are moving it gets dragged/forced to point straight.

A land rover with wrong tracking is REALLY hard to control... I drove my 90 back 200 miles when i bought it with the tracking about 16mm out... That was fun. The old owners replaced the track rod ball joints, and just screwed them all the way in. Thanks...
 
no, toe.

The castor angle also affects this, as does the camber angle, as im sure you know.

Which is how BMW etc make a big 4x4 handle better - look at how much the wheels camber when you turn them.

The toe setting does change when driving though, which is why its set like this.
LR castor angle is pretty much fixed, unless you replace the radius arms, lift, it, etc.
 
boydy1989 said:
no, toe.

The castor angle also affects this, as does the camber angle, as im sure you know.

Which is how BMW etc make a big 4x4 handle better - look at how much the wheels camber when you turn them.

The toe setting does change when driving though, which is why its set like this.
LR castor angle is pretty much fixed, unless you replace the radius arms, lift, it, etc.
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grumble grumble.. I'll let you have that one :p

Have never seen it in practice on an offroad vehicle! Cheers, have actually learnt something today!
 
Just look at the next soft roader you see manouvering, like the porsche cayenne, or the X5, or even the range rover On full lock its really pronouced with the big wheels, but of course ini the 'speed corners' it makes it stick better.

:D heffs admits defeat to another student, he he he...
 
Nice one glad its working properly now! We normally use a bit of string around all four corners to gauge tracking, but we int got arches to worry about :D
 
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