Originally Posted by
yifuqiao
Does anyone have problem that the rear toe aren't exactly the same? Yesterday, I put my car on setup station (integy 1/10 setup station).
I found rear toe has about 0.5 degree difference.
I know rear toe are not adjustable, does this mean I might have bent anything?
Originally Posted by
97Clemow
in my opinion, if something was bent, it would likely be the hinge pin. anything bent above the pins would be more likely to effect the camber if the pins are straight.
I have had differences in my toe settings before on a new hudy set-up station before. I believe that the toe blocks were inaccurate. this was several years ago(TRF 415/416 era) and since then, maybe Try Hard could back me up( but I think he has moved on to the "other" r/c car manufacturer), they have improved with the introduction of the newer "split blocks" and newer style toe blocks i.e. with italic lettering and the thicker design.
you wouldn't be using the older style blocks, would you? (just asking)
P.S. if you have a good crash you can still bend the ear of the rear toe block. this usually
is the case if you can move the arm forwards and backwards on the pin while everything is still attached to chassis. ( nothing to brag about but I have bent a fair share of bits )
Yeap, I reported the same problem with my TRF418 since new. My car had one full degree of difference left to right. Even changing the split blocks to the old one piece style (tried a few), there was still a difference in rear toe, so I think the holes are drilled in the wrong place in the chassis. I swapped the split mounts around left to right of course to check and the problem was the same. Changing to a Samix chassis didn't solve the problem so either the hole locations were copied from the original and the problem was carried on, or there is some other really fiendshly difficult to pinpoint cause.
I have a Hudy setup station and none of my other cars have this problem (these include a TA05R in which I use the same old style single piece blocks I used to check the TRF418).
I corrected the problem by moving to Xray old style split blocks (single screw; I had to drill a hole in the chassis for the locating pin) and it takes an extra 1mm shim on one side to even out the toe. Tamiya has gone down in quality of their manufacturing in my opinion.