Right knowledgable folks.. (that excludes about 75% of you lot )

I had our Rallye laser tracked and adjusted this morning.

We knew it'd be way out since the KW's went on plus the eccentric top mounts.

Well the tow in was way too much so that was adjusted back out and castor was increased to the max we could get while maintaining camber.

The problem was the rear.. we've changed the whole rear beam and trailing arms for refurbished ones. Fitted 25mm torsion bars and an uprated hybrid arb. At the same time some solid rear mounts from Jim.

We have about 1 degree camber on the nearside but practically none on the offside

Plus and more worryingly we have neutral tow on the nearside but the offside is towing in quite a bit more than standard.

Here are our print outs..

PRE ADJUSTMENT


POST ADJUSTMENT


Obviously no adjustments available on the rear but there is a discrepancy between the pre and post results for the nearside rear toe.

I'm pretty happy about the front but welcome opinions on the tow.

We still have the old beam and trailing arms but I can't believe we have bought an odd pair Citroen/Peugeot

What do you guys think we should try with the rear?

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Rallye gets sideways in the wet at Snetterton

Spoke to Dave earlier, Jim. I'll try and get the old trailing arms off tomorrow night and if necessary get them couriered down.

Unless you fancy joining us at Al's this weekend for a resumption of weekend festivities?

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This would actually be easy to resolve as our hybrid arb will still fit with those trailing arms!

Cheers Sean



Kev they're f*cking heavy! I may join you this weekend to collect and enjoy F1 finale with you northerers.

I wonder if I could fly up and put them in my hand luggage?



I thought that about the whole beam Matt.. but what about the camber on one side but not the other? I don't think there's any room in the bolt holes for adjustment anyway.

Changing them would eliminate the arms and point to the beam tube or something else though I guess. Cheers

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Rallye gets sideways in the wet at Snetterton

there's probably enough slack in all the mounting bolts for the front brackets and manufacturing tolerances to account for the different readings.

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what about it?

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I fall into the 75% ... disclaimer

I had mine done today so this is quite useful to see a comparison.

Camber issue: Wheel bearing? Warped wheel? Uneven tyre tread?

Rear toe: I would say the position of your rear beam is slightly off. ie the left side of the beam needs to be pushed forward slightly - 1or2mm (undo bolts in boot reposition). maybe the company who did the geometry settings could jack the rear up and adjust the position of the rear beam.

edit: It looks like your front pre-adjusted toe settings were trying to imitate a snow plough a bit out

double edit: my settings after rear beam adjustment

15mm TB

i have never seen the rear of a 306 ever be in spec and i have been doing four wheelers for many years!!

It really does seem that simple doesn't it! I don't know how much you can move if forwards on one side without affecting the other though.

Hasn't anyone else had to "align the beam" when changing it over?





Purely guesswork on Dave's part

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Rallye gets sideways in the wet at Snetterton

You think we can get them even? If there is any room for adjustment then I'm suprised no one else has had to do this

Re the camber - It has to be either bent or the inner beam tube damaged? It all looked fine though. Perhaps changing the stub axels back over will eliminate one or the other.

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Rallye gets sideways in the wet at Snetterton

It is easy to adjust ... undo 6 beam retaining nuts in boot ... i am sure someone here could do the calculations to tell you exactly how many mm to move left side forward. better to ask geometry company to jack up car on sills and move beam with laser kit attached. your rear arms will be 20/20 when moved ...

Cheers for all the responses so far guys.

I'll be changing the stub axels back over to see if that cures the camber. If it doesn't alter the toe correctly we'll f*ck about with the whole beam.

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Rallye gets sideways in the wet at Snetterton

the guys have said precisely what I was going to elaborate on with the mounting bolts, there's 8 bolts that you could loosen and move the beam around on very slightly, probably enough to make the differences up.

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