Road steering
I test drove a 03 40 ft Newmar Dutchstar with a Freightliner chassis yesterday and constantly had to correct the steering to make it go straight. It seamed that I was always over steering.Is this a pr...
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randallb wrote:
I have a few questions that relates to road crown. How does a manufacturer of a bare chassis or any vehicle accommodate for road crown with their alignment or suspension geometry? Since they can not do this please explain how a non-engineer, your alignment specialist, can set up your alignment to offset road crown. In the Pacific Northwest the roads have a pretty heavy crown to get the rain off as quickly as possible. In drier parts of the country the roads are pretty close to flat. Remember it costs more to crown a road. So once more I ask, how do you manufacture or align to compensate for road crown?
Using a vehicle line I worked on as a mechanic for close to 40 years as an example of differences in roads; the PNW cars wore out RR tires much faster than the other three tires and our cars in CA liked to wear out LF tires. Can you figure out why?
Randy
They don't , but a after market product can correct it. Just my opinion of course
