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Subject:Re: Tire wear question
From:Dennis Haynes
Date:Mon, 1 Oct 2007 23:27:26 -0400

I didn�t hear replacement of the radius rod mounts. They can cause all
sorts of unknown grief. They adjust and maintain the caster angle.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Jim Felder
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 10:44 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Tire wear question

What's causing a not-quite-even wear on the inner fourth of the width
of a front tire? I noticed this recently on my 82 and have replaced
ball joints, steering rack, and innner and outer tie rods to get rid
of it and other steering peculiarities.

Now I am noticing the same wear on one side of my 90. Everything on
that side looks good (as compared to my 82, which had zerk fittings
and torn rubber and lots of obvious slop) so I don't want to replace
it all.

What should I suspect?

Thanks,

Jim