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NAPA store. They have a complete catalog for just alignment
Products. Usually available overnight
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Here is the information on them:
Brand: Competition Engineering Inc.
Item#: C7025 Wedge Plates 2 degree. Two per package.
Special order through O'Reilly's Auto Parts
I think the price was around $30.00
These have a hole in the center for the axel to spring alignment pin and are corregated so they can be stacked if more than 2 degrees of caster is needed. The 1932 factory bulletins call for 2 degrees of positive caster, but I think the later models may call for 4 degrees. I would try 2 degrees and only go the 4 degrees if necessary. Be sure to install them with the thick end of the wedge plates toward the rear (positive caster) otherwise you will be creating negative caster and make the problem worse.
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My biggest fault was a worn king pin
I rebuilt the king pins, made sure tie rods were snug and used 2 deg
Caster
I had a professional alignment the car drives great
No shake, pull and can be handled with one hand while driving
A close inspection showed the faults
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Roger, I do agree with you to some extent - you can rebuild the whole front end, incl. shock, steering box, perfectly balance the tires, and ... and get the problem a whole lot better (aka why you possibly experienced success with the adjustment of the Hartford shocks on your Jaguar) - but it is just a band-aid at best if alignment is the issue.
I will match the handling of our 1935 Auburn to anything made pre 1955 and most anything without power steering - it is worth the effort to get it truly right. Also, I hear the same from several 810 812 Cord owners.
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Oftener than not the oil has all dripped out and this it can make steering looser.
Fill it with regular no2 grease
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And, I would suspect the tie rod needed replaced as some alignment issue tore it up.
You would have loved seeing our 851 Phaeton on a Hunter alignment rack being done via computer at a local fellows who sets up race cars (and Hunter even had the specs for the Auburn in their IT program).
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Radials will not fix tour problem.
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I have ?35 Speedster that is fitted with telescopic shock absorbers. I don?t know if an original of a later fitment. The car drove extremely well, always straight and true. When I took her in for her MoT (state inspection) I was told I needed one new track rod end. A pair were duly obtained and fitted. On the way home from the garage, I experienced a horrible steering shimmy that would not go away until I got the speed down to less than ten mph; speeding up through was not an option. We fitted new adjustable shocks all round and the incidence of the death shimmy has reduced but has not gone away.
Does anyone have any ideas? Will radials cure the problem?
The last time I experience this was on my Jaguar SS 100. We obtained and fitted new wheels and tyres but to no avail. While chatting to a local garage owner, he took a spanner to my front Hartford friction shocks and tightened them up a notch. The problem disappeared.
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