Miata Mailing List: June 1997, Message #73
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From: 	"Fritz Zimmerman" <fritz@winternet.com>

Subject: Intallation of shocks and alignment

Date: 	Mon, 2 Jun 1997 12:56:29 -0500



Hello again everyone,



I want to thank all the input you gave regarding my shock 

installation.  As it turned out the worst part of the experience was 

removing the shock from the spring.  I finally brought the 

shock/spring assemblies over to a local Goodyear dealer to swap the 

shocks.  After this was done it took me only 2.5 hours to install the 

shocks and the new JR swaybars.  What a difference!  With 50,000 

miles on the odometer the old shocks must have been tired.  And with 

the addition of the JR sway bars the car really stays flat.

Again thanks for the help with the shocks!.



Anyway, if I could bother the collective for another potential 

problem.  I had a mechanic put on my new Yoko A509's and do the Miq 

alignment.  On the way home I thought the car felt 'twitchey'.  When I 

pulled into the driveway I checked the air pressure.  The pressure 

was 50+ PSI (my gauge only reads to 50)!  So after lowering the 

pressure to 28 PSI the car behaves much better. So the question is, if 

the alignment is done with 50+PSI in the tires does this mess up the 

alignment?  



They also could not attain some of the values specified in the 'Miq' 

alignment.  Specifically the camber and caster up front. 

Camber -0.4     Caster 4.6 left and 4.5, right.

Toe -0.11 (how do you convert this to inches?)



Rear camber @ 1.2



Could the inablity to reach a higher caster be the result of high 

PSI?   



Thanks for the help...again.





Fritz



fritz@winternet.com