Alright guys, I'm posting this because after searching thru so many alignment threads it's only confused me more.
My car is completely stock except for the Turner Sways. It's got nearly all fresh ZHP suspension, therefore stock ride height. Yesterday I also finally changed the tierods too, so now I need an alignment, but until I can schedule one I need to set it myself to a comfortable setting. Since it's the weekend I don't know when a real alignment will happen.
I initially gave it too much toe-in during install and the ride was kinda scary, it would turn in way too aggressively, and even get stuck at the full lock position.
I re-adjusted it a few minutes ago so both front wheels are pointing nearly straight forward.
I'm a little concerned as to why it got stuck when it swung to full-lock. Could it be steering rack related? By that I mean that I centered the steering wheel simply by starting off the adjustments with the steering wheel centered and the wheels facing forward, before and after replacing the tie-rods. I didn't actually base it off any bolt on the rack itself.
There was some rotor-dust-shield rubbing, but that was probably cuz I bent the shield when hammering at the balljoint, I bent it back. Everything else is nice and snug.
I haven't taken it out for a drive yet to see how the turn-in is, but I wanted to clear up some questions I had beforehand.
One question I have is what adjustments does a stock suspension nonM e46 have? Obviously toe, but is there any caster or camber adjustment and if so from where? I thought it was just a rotating bearing on the strut tower.
Also, the reason I changed the tierods was cuz the old ones were seized and an alignment couldn't be done. Is there anything in the rear of the car that might also prevent a tech from doing a proper alignment?
More specifically, the ONLY rear suspension components that I DIDN'T replace are the RTABS. I'm not familiar at all what adjustments exist back there.
I'd appreciate any input on this.
My car is completely stock except for the Turner Sways. It's got nearly all fresh ZHP suspension, therefore stock ride height. Yesterday I also finally changed the tierods too, so now I need an alignment, but until I can schedule one I need to set it myself to a comfortable setting. Since it's the weekend I don't know when a real alignment will happen.
I initially gave it too much toe-in during install and the ride was kinda scary, it would turn in way too aggressively, and even get stuck at the full lock position.
I re-adjusted it a few minutes ago so both front wheels are pointing nearly straight forward.
I'm a little concerned as to why it got stuck when it swung to full-lock. Could it be steering rack related? By that I mean that I centered the steering wheel simply by starting off the adjustments with the steering wheel centered and the wheels facing forward, before and after replacing the tie-rods. I didn't actually base it off any bolt on the rack itself.
There was some rotor-dust-shield rubbing, but that was probably cuz I bent the shield when hammering at the balljoint, I bent it back. Everything else is nice and snug.
I haven't taken it out for a drive yet to see how the turn-in is, but I wanted to clear up some questions I had beforehand.
One question I have is what adjustments does a stock suspension nonM e46 have? Obviously toe, but is there any caster or camber adjustment and if so from where? I thought it was just a rotating bearing on the strut tower.
Also, the reason I changed the tierods was cuz the old ones were seized and an alignment couldn't be done. Is there anything in the rear of the car that might also prevent a tech from doing a proper alignment?
More specifically, the ONLY rear suspension components that I DIDN'T replace are the RTABS. I'm not familiar at all what adjustments exist back there.
I'd appreciate any input on this.