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Re: Daren, something that is not generally known outside of
Posted by aero guy (more from aero guy) on Sat, 28 Jul 2001 13:48:55
In Reply to: I had to go to another shop. Camber was off by 40 deg on the, Daren, Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:13:33
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Saab is that the Camber on Saabs is set with a 170 pound bias in the driver's seat ie., to simnulate an 85 percentile man. If you place this ballast into the drive seat the camber WILL be correct and pretty close to the same value (-0.6). The cars leave the factory at -0.65 nominal, and after about 100,000 miles sit a little more negative - a good thing. I put 325,000 miles on a 9000 and the negative only went up to -.92 which is still in tolerance and handling was better at this mileage than new. Believe it or not the UK cars are significantly jigged at the factory to account for the 340 pound difference left to right since 89 percent of the Saabs are left hand drive vehicles. FWTIW!
1.0 to 2.1 + degree caster is also set into the car for road crown and again UK cars are more neutral than positive since the NA crown is more predonminant than most of Europe. the world? My RHD Saab 9000 always wanted to drive on the wrong side of the road (pull to co driver side) at least it seemed more comfortable there especially on the M40 and M6, so I always suspected the caster was not perfect.
since caster/camber on 9000s can not be set it is jigged at the factory any pulling is:
1 tire belt problem
2 serious toe adjustment problem - corrected by stering wheel re-adjustment
3 wrecked front lower suspension or towers. order of seriousness.
Posibility of caliper pistons also should be considered.
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