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[Cerberus]

If it was the passenger side that was out before, and it's now well out even though the rack is centered sounds odd to me, (Might just be my brain not engaging though)

 

I wouldn't expect it to be perfect in one with the rack centered, but it should be somewhere near if your winding them on the right amount.

 

How many turns did you do each TRE?  IIRC mine were somewhere in the region of 11-12 turns each side, I think.

Edited by Cerberus, 17 December 2014 - 07:59 PM.

[olly33]

I just did it by the gap left on the thread each side,approx 12mm.

[Dan]

That means nothing really, there is too much variability in the machining. You have to set it properly. If you want to replace a TRE counting the turns and so on doesn't really work. There is a machined step on the rod where the gaiter sits, measure from there to the centre of the pin in the TRE and fit the new one to the same position. This might work ok for comparing side to side as well, but really it's just too variable.

[olly33]

Will give that a look into Dan.I take it, there is some fair bit of +/-  tolerance one side to the other, hence my front passenger wheel being out.

[olly33]

Ok, I have now adjusted the passenger Tre,and now by eye It now seems straight, but it did screw on a fair bit more than the drivers side, almost all thread taken up.

[Cerberus]

Sounds like you possibly need to unwind that one and wind the other one the opposite way to equal it out a bit?, you don't really want one screwed on all the way and one hardly on at all.

 

 

But hold on, if the passenger side wheel was sticking out (toe out), and you screwed the TRE on more using up nearly all the thread, that would make the passenger wheel toe out even more.

Until you roll it, when the passenger side would go in and the drivers side would go out and the steering wheel would no longer be centered when wheels are straight.

Edited by Cerberus, 21 December 2014 - 01:05 PM.

[olly33]

God knows,i think i have confused myself now .The steering wheel was out afterwards,so i just refitted the wheel straight for now.