ALK...suspensions Gurus where ya at!!
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From: Farnborough, Hants
Car Info: the blue bucket
Originally Posted by Arnie
You can't adjust the offset in the ALK. Whiteline provides the maximum amount of caster while still allowing full articulation of the control arm. I guess you could theoretically press the bushing out and rotate it a bit but its not as simple as that. The bushing in the ALK is molded a certain way so that the revised "angle of attack" that the control arm has due to the ALK is met with no binding or resistance. Kind of hard to explain, but the use of the ALK mounts the control arm tip lower and and farther inboard. This angles the tip a few degrees inwards and it is not longer perpendicular/parallel to the chassis. The bushing in the ALK compensates for this new angle.
My question purely pertains to the offset bushing, I would assume that your alignment shop installed it or someone qualified that would know which way to angle the offset to achieve the desired results otherwise it would be fairly worthless or perhaps even providing a disadvantage from a handling perspective.
Mike
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From: Lake Hughes | CA
Car Info: WRX Wagon
Whooops sorry mike! But good info, perhaps, for the unschooled. As I recall, the instructions are pretty clear as to the orientation of the offset bushing in the stock housing. I think there is an orientation notch in the bushing to show you which way to get the most caster. But certainly, if its not installed correctly, you can have very uneven caster or even less caster than stock.
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