Miata Mailing List: September 1998, Message #49

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Jerry, correcting the steering wheel being off-center does
not involve rotating the wheel itself.  There are threaded
adjustments on the steering shaft (same adjustments that
change toe-in and toe-out).

To change toe you screw one in or out which changes the bars
length and affects the toe.  To correct steering
misalignment, you screw one side in, and the other out.
This keeps the steering shaft the same length, but changes
the center position.

Bottom line is that the alignment tech screwed up.  This is
a very easy adjustment and one he should have checked for.
Since you paid for it, the alignment shop should fix it.
OTOH, you might want to do it yourself instead of giving him
another chance to screw up.  It only takes five minutes.

Tom Blough
tblough@snet.net
Avon, CT

Do, or do not.  There is no try.
Yoda - noted scholar and self defense instructor.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: miata@realbig.com [mailto:miata@realbig.com]On
Behalf Of Jerry
> Reuter
> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 3:51 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: RE: I'm seeing red dots
>
>
> Actually the tech that mounted and balanced my tires
couldn't
> read.  When he
> got the reading down to .25 oz he wouldn't put one on
because
> he said it was
> so small that I couldn't tell anyway. (true?)  On the one
> tire that took
> 2.25 oz, I couldn't bribe him to roll it around and try it
> again.  The four
> wheel alignment was nailed right on the specs, but
actually
> it feels like it
> tracked better before the alignment. The steering wheel is
> off 'just a tad'
> and I'm not sure one tooth on the hub won't be too much
> correction. (picky
> ain't I?)
> Jerry Reuter & Elf (Charleston, SC)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Paul_Williamson@csi.com
[mailto:Paul_Williamson@csi.com]
> Sent:	Monday, August 31, 1998 7:41 AM
> To:	Jerry Reuter
> Cc:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	RE: I'm seeing red dots
>
> At 8/30/98 09:32 PM +0000, Jerry Reuter wrote:
> >Super find.  Thanks for the info, should be mandatory
reading...
> >	www.dunloptire.com/TCM_Vibration.html
> >
>
> And copies given to the tech that mounts and balances your
tires!
>
>
> Paul
> Merrimack, NH
> Home of the 99 "Silver Screamer"
>
>
>