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Subject:Re: Running out of castor adjustment
From:David Beierl
Date:Mon, 15 Jul 2013 18:23:31 -0400

At 06:06 PM 7/15/2013, Craig Cowan wrote:
>So I'm at the shop and they can't seem to get my cast[e]r set. The
>nuts are almost all the way off the radius rods and still it's off
>by a bit. The bushings are new, and they're torquing the hell out of
>the inner nuts to get it close. Any suggestions?

Clearly something is wrong.  Are they using the wrong numbers?  Wrong
setup?  Collision damage?  Is the steel tube too long?  Wailing on
the nut is just going to bend/break things, the spacing is set by the
length of the spacer.

Yours,
David