Front suspension - Inner Tie Rod Poor Geo (Pic)

[RyanT]

Trying to improve upon my 240’s steering, especially over bumpy surfaces.

Apex front arms, lowered on BC’s, roll centre spacers. But now the geometry of both the inner rod & outer tie rod is incorrect in relation to the lower arm?

Am I correct in thinking the inner tie rod should never angle ‘up’? And the outer tie rod should be parallel with the suspension arm?

Time to get some T3 / Apex outer tie rods on order to correct the angles?

 

[Alphabettispaghetti]

Alan stainforth has a mega book on suspension.....

Apex have never read it.

 

[Rob Gaskin]

You are correct in that the tie-rod should not point upwards. That is to avoid severe toe-in on compression I reckon.

Are your steering arms standard? They seem to be bent upwards as if to give clearance for the wheel rim? I need to check that out.

Is your alternator on the near-side?

 

[RyanT]

You are correct in that the tie-rod should not point upwards. That is to avoid severe toe-in on compression I reckon.

Are your steering arms standard? They seem to be bent upwards as if to give clearance for the wheel rim? I need to check that out.

Is your alternator on the near-side?

Good point - They are standard but the more I think about it, it could have had an impact on that side and bent things. I’ll compare how it sits with the other side tomorrow.

And it’s LS-swapped so alternator is on the near side!

Alan stainforth has a mega book on suspension.....

Apex have never read it.

Sounds like I aught to add that to my reading list - Cheers.