LoneWolf
08-15-2011, 10:30 AM
Saturday I had new Cooper Zeon RS3-A tires installed and had the front alignment done also. I gave the alignment mech. Carfixer's specs and explained the advice and experience here on the forums. He said he'd worked on a Marauder once before and remembered having to remove the cam flags. After getting the car on the machine he showed me the alignment specs and said they were right on the factory numbers. He cut off the flags and worked to get first the camber and secondly the caster into Carfixer's numbers. Lastly he set the Toe and he had a really hard time doing it; he said the jam-nut was so tight he could hardly move it. He finally got it and said it was the best he could manage. I noticed that the final Toe settings seemed to be more negative than it started out with originally. I hope it isn't off too much to affect the wear performance intended by the Carfixer specs. I drove it about 40 miles afterwards and the steering and tracking felt good. On a straight 4 lane road it seemed to track pretty true with hands off the wheel. I've included some pics: first is a shot of the original settings and the last pic is of the final settings.
Settings:
CAMBER: Left: -0.5* / Right: -0.4*
CASTER: Left: 5.5* / Right: 5.8*
TOE: Left: -0.07* / Right: -0.07*
Settings:
CAMBER: Left: -0.5* / Right: -0.4*
CASTER: Left: 5.5* / Right: 5.8*
TOE: Left: -0.07* / Right: -0.07*