Changing "toe in" to "toe out" temporarily???

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Changing "toe in" to "toe out" temporarily???

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Would it be feasible to change toe in to toe out temporarily to counteract excessive wear to inside edges of tyres?

The current setting is about 30' toe in

I'm assuming the bush's are nacked :cry:

Would doing this have the desired effect?

Would there be safety issues in doing this?

This only needs to get me around 300ish miles out of these tyres until the van can be taken and have all the necessary work done to the running gear professionally.

2 days to get sorted :wink:

Andy
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Re: Changing "toe in" to "toe out" temporarily???

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Cant you just put the rears on the front?
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Re: Changing "toe in" to "toe out" temporarily???

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kevtherev wrote:Cant you just put the rears on the front?

Dare say it would not hurt for a few hundred miles.....

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Andy
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Re: Changing "toe in" to "toe out" temporarily???

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UPDATE....
I adjusted the camber on these as it was way out of plumb and after the trip to Yorkshire it showed the ride to be on the whole (whats left) of the tyre tread :ok

It will all still need sorting properly though :wink:

Andy
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WANTED old treadle lathe please......
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