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- East-Central Pennsylvania
- Vehicle Year
- 1987... sorta
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- '93 4.0
- Transmission
- Manual
A vehicle with too much or too little toe will be "darty" and unpredictable.
Caster mainly affects self-cantering, or lack thereof
Personally I installed the dropper radius arm brackets from an STX HI Rider, but NONE of the rest of the High rider kit...
The thing is I did it purely for the additional caster, because I wanted very positive self centering and simply don't trust most alignment shops to do it the way I want it done....
You must remember that alignment specifications are mostly about tire wear and all the rest is about an engineer's guess about how the vehicle will be driven, I do a lot of highway miles and towing so I wanted the truck to be stable...
Also when not towing I figured that a 4.0 powered truck with 4.10 gears might be a bit "tail happy", so I wanted the ability to quickly recover from over-steer
with my additional caster all I need to do to have the steering is to let go of the wheel rim and the steering returns to center... it takes conscious effort to make my trucks steering do anything other than straight ahead...
All that caster also helps damp out oscillations from "trailer sway"...
Caster mainly affects self-cantering, or lack thereof
Personally I installed the dropper radius arm brackets from an STX HI Rider, but NONE of the rest of the High rider kit...
The thing is I did it purely for the additional caster, because I wanted very positive self centering and simply don't trust most alignment shops to do it the way I want it done....
You must remember that alignment specifications are mostly about tire wear and all the rest is about an engineer's guess about how the vehicle will be driven, I do a lot of highway miles and towing so I wanted the truck to be stable...
Also when not towing I figured that a 4.0 powered truck with 4.10 gears might be a bit "tail happy", so I wanted the ability to quickly recover from over-steer
with my additional caster all I need to do to have the steering is to let go of the wheel rim and the steering returns to center... it takes conscious effort to make my trucks steering do anything other than straight ahead...
All that caster also helps damp out oscillations from "trailer sway"...
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