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Old 06-29-09, 05:14 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Mace View Post
You got a bit confused there.

You can point the pinion towards the Tcase. That movement is typicaly ~ 12 to 14*

The actual cut N turn part is to adjust the knuckles because you pointed the pinion at the tcase, so you have to rotate both knuckles back, or counter clockwise (PS) or clockwise (DS)

The main goal is to get approximately 4ish * back on your castor.

There are lots of pics on this..
That makes sense. I did get my numbers backwards. So with rotating my pinion up 12-14*, I need to turn the opposite of what I said and add 4* when rotating the knuckles past 0 for a total turn of 16*-18*. OK that really makes more sense than what I said. That's what I get for thinking too much.

One more thing that confuses me. If the knuckles are rotated forward towards the front of the rig (pinion pointed up towards T-case) is that positive or negative caster?

As for buying an axle already set up, that defeats learning how to work on my own rig. Becuase I can ask these stupid questions, I have always been able to work things out and do things properly.

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