It seems Joel has added some fuel to fire here. Our local TCS race is not until april but I set out to fine tune my M06. I started on the rear and worked on taking the play out of the rear. I used Joels CA method on the arms which worked like a charm. My rear hubs are the aluminium and axles are the CVD. What I found interesting about the CVDs was that shimming in between bearings did not work so well. When I looked at the CVD axle.. on the inner part where axle meets the cup, there is a lowered surface. Thats the area I ended up shimming. I also found it useful to doing the trial and error test it outside of the up right. I would add shims, add inner bearing, add centre spacer, add outer bearing, cross pin and hex and see how much play there was.

After finishing the rear I set out on the front.. which is always much worse on the M chassis cars. I not only needed to put CA on the suspension arms, I ended up adding some to the C hub and the Chassis pin holder. End result became a little tight.. so I had to hone the holes. Its still a little tighter than I like but after some laps I am sure it will loosen up. Im curious to know how long the CA will last before slop settles back in..

I ended up changing to a new centre main tub.. as there were cracks in multiple screw holes. I had one new in my spares so it was time.. after 9 years!

Last I tried to measure as Joel had done for the suspension travel. This I found most daunting as I was not coming up with distance numbers anywhere close to his. Joel, if you could elaborate the two points you used to measure it would be great.

I ended up using a long screw and placing it in each shock hole. Then I would measure from the top of the shock to this long screw and record the distance travelled from 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 mm. I am using the optional carbon rear shock tower, not sure if that has anything to do with it. I also found measuring the inner shock hole the most difficult as there is no way to get a straight / linear measurement using a calliper. Space is tight.

I am able to report just as Joel showed.. the centre shock hole does show odd results. So probably best to avoid.. oddly enough.. that was the hole I was using haha. The inner hole is the most linear.