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Game changer propshaft

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Wouldn't know how to check my caster, or exactly what it is🤪🤣
Haha, well it's normally measured when you go in for an alignment, and it's on the paper they give you at the end. But the castor angle is best described by just looking at the image below haha.
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I've had my caster at .7 degrees, so not sure if that help or not. or maybe its -.7, can't remember haha
This almost certainly has had a huge effect on your joints life span. This is not a trivial number at all, many trucks are sitting at 2-3° and Ineos was super inconsistent with this setting as they were not actually aligning many of the trucks if not all trucks that went over seas. That left dealers to do the alignments and they would have targeted higher caster numbers as .7° would be considered out of spec. And with all that the reality is the caster should have been set closer to a full 5° to provide more consistent handling.

So yes, your .7° caster is most certainly your secret sauce so to speak. I would also assume your toe is a bit high to account for the low caster.
 
This almost certainly has had a huge effect on your joints life span. This is not a trivial number at all, many trucks are sitting at 2-3° and Ineos was super inconsistent with this setting as they were not actually aligning many of the trucks if not all trucks that went over seas. That left dealers to do the alignments and they would have targeted higher caster numbers as .7° would be considered out of spec. And with all that the reality is the caster should have been set closer to a full 5° to provide more consistent handling.

So yes, your .7° caster is most certainly your secret sauce so to speak. I would also assume your toe is a bit high to account for the low caster.
So with a low castor number, his pinion turned up making a straighter drive line.
 
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