Ke70 Tyre Hits Caster-Rod At Full Lock, Help!!!!!

[Adrogen]

Need help with my ke70. The front tyres hit the caster (tention) rods when ever you try to turn all the way left or right :(

I can't believe how little info there is on this problem seeing as though it is a common setup

ke70

ae86 PS knuckles

MA61 wheels with 195-45r14 tyres

AJPS lock spacer.

 

 

 

Note: the tyres have plenty of room between them and the body back and front it's just the caster rod that they hit.

 

Thank you for any help you can give, Adrian.

[Adrogen]

just a pic showing it hitting the rod but not the body.

[ke70dave]

How much castor have you got dialed in?

[Jono.C]

Space the wheels out away from the castor rods, either with extended/ longer lca's or bolt on spacers

[Adrogen]

none "dialed" in, the caster adjustment was slackened right off until there was no load on the LCA to install the sway bar links with out any huffing and puffing then caster adjustment pulled up to about the middle of its thread for a starting point ready for alignment.

[Adrogen]

has XT130 LCAs so it's already longer :/ no room left with the fenders

[Adrogen]

will winding the caster back and springing on the LCA bushings pull it away from the caster rod???

 

a little worried about my safety at higher speed with very low caster angles...

Edited September 26, 2012 by Adrogen

[ke70dave]

ma61 wheels are apparently 14x7 +8

 

sounds to me like the combination of the slightly positive wheels, lock spacer and ps arms creates too much lock and the tyre hits.

 

You could weld a lock stop onto the LCA to stop the steering arm going to far.

 

its quite possible that everyone with this setup rubs the crap out of their tyres on full lock.

[TRD ke70]

We had something of the same problem, but ours rubbed on the chassis at the back.

Setup is Sigma LCA's, AE86 PWS arms, no lock spacer, and 13 x 6 rims with 195/70 rally tyres and a quaife quick rack..

 

Face it, you'll have to remove some lock out of the steering or change your rims.

Edited September 26, 2012 by TRD ke70

[Jono.C]

If it's a street car he's right ^

 

If it's a track car just lengthen the lower control arms to buggary, more track to push the wheels right out..

 

Or look into dog legging some castor rods

[Adrogen]

yeah I had started to think about caster rods with a small kink in the right spot, has anyone done this? seems like a perfect solution if it could be done...

 

car will be registered so need to keep things looking neat.

[Adrogen]

grabbed this pic from the net and circled the "banana caster rod" perfect thing if i could get it.

[Adrogen]

[InSaNiTy]

Interesting...

[Jono.C]

Yep, That was what i meant..

 

Either that or try a different wheel/ tyre size