Corner Balancing Question, With a twist |
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Corner Balancing Question, With a twist |
ellisor3 |
Jan 16 2012, 04:32 PM
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HPWhore Group: Members Posts: 811 Joined: 23-October 08 From: Fleming Island, Florida Member No.: 9,683 Region Association: South East States |
I took my car to get it corner balanced, and all seem to work out pretty well. Then went to get the alignment and had some issues. I posted about that and got some really good feedback that will help me solve the problem.
Then today as I was looking at the situation again I noticed another problem. The ride height of my car is higher in the passengers rear than the drivers rear by 2.5 cm. I don't know how I or the shop that did the corner balancing missed it. Here are the numbers from the weighing LF 599 RF 541 =1140 LR 724 RR 678 =1402 Total weight 2542 Left side is 52% Right Side is 48% Cross weight is 50.23 To Correct the balancing, take the weight of the total of the front and multiply by the corner to be corrected: 1140x52%=593 for the LF 1140x48%=547 for the RF 1402x52%=729 for the LR and 1402x 48%=673 for the RR Corrected quadrants LF 592(-7) RF 547 (+7) LR 729 (+5) RR 673 (-5) Since I have steel flares, I measured the height from the floor to the lip of the flares and they are the same. I also checked the height setting on the shocks (Bilstein Sports) and they are equal to each other. What would make the car higher on one side? Could the sway bars cause this? It seems one option would be to raise the LR to not only equal the weight but correct the ride height. The only thing that puzzles me about that is that the shocks would be set in two different positions, is that normal?? |
ellisor3 |
Jan 17 2012, 05:32 PM
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HPWhore Group: Members Posts: 811 Joined: 23-October 08 From: Fleming Island, Florida Member No.: 9,683 Region Association: South East States |
So based on what I have read and using my example I should start by raising the largest discrepency quadrant that is negative to ideal first? In my case that would be the left front. It seems that raising the left front would push down the right rear. What am I missing?
Ideal numbers and the change needed in parenthesis LF 592(-7) RF 547 (+7) LR 729 (+5) RR 673 (-5) |
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