Look at picture please,upper balljoint spacers

[italian job]

Just getting to final stages,should be putting the body back on following outrigger replacement.Can anyone comment on the 3mm spacers that I have fitted either side of the new upper ball joint. I have a dim memory of one large spacer when I removed the original ball joint but cant find the photo I took,despite trawling the internet cant find a photo that shows clearly if I have assembled correctly with a 3mm spacer either side of the ball joint or if it needs both spacers on one side of the balljoint. Can anyone clarify for me please? It will be a darn site easier to rectify now before the body goes back on.
Cheers Paul.

[phazed]

Mine has one wide spacer at the front.

[s p a c e m a n]

They're not standard are they, iirc they're upgraded ones so that you can have a spacer each side rather than a single one that's twice the thickness on one side like I have?

[Sardonicus]

Those spacers are to adjust the castor angle rather than just packers/spacers you make find both have to go on one side for example to get the necessary geo

[Geoff38]

with the new joints they won't slide in and out to set camber with spacer on one side as they bulge out on both sides and hit the wishbone so You have to have spacers on both sides. must be other threads about this.
My brother has just done this on his rebuild

edit- found this thread....

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=28&...

Edited by Geoff38 on Friday 24th October 11:25

[spend]

Sardonicus said:

Those spacers are to adjust the castor angle rather than just packers/spacers you make find both have to go on one side for example to get the necessary geo

A large part of why the masses spout PAS is essential IMHO ~ to cope with the wandering caused by too little caster... To boot you could theoretically run greater caster (than allowable with TVR BJS even fitted as far back as possible) which would make the steering very hard (but track straight) when you have PAS.

[italian job]

Thanks very much everyone for replying,nothing is ever straight forward is it? Ideally I should have both spacers to the front but because of the size of the ball joint if I do that I wont get the camber adjustment I need without filing bits off my freshly powdercoated wishbones. Brill.

Cheers Paul.