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- Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:25 am
- Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
- Topic: Rail Riding - "How To Guide"
- Replies: 196
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Re: Rail Riding - "How To Guide"
I think the problem was with only having negative camber on one rear wheel/axle on the dominant side and not on the other. I replaced the bent axle with a straight axle the wobble doing my finger test was eliminated. Think we will run the district with just straight axles all around. We have a sligh...
- Sat Feb 27, 2010 4:13 pm
- Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
- Topic: Rail Riding - "How To Guide"
- Replies: 196
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Re: Rail Riding - "How To Guide"
The car is a slight three wheeler but thats just because of when we turned the front dominant axle to get about a 2 1/4 inch drift over 4 ft. the non dominant front wheel is slightly raised and mostly spins free. We dont have an axle bender tool so we just put the axle in a vise with an old wheel on...
- Sat Feb 27, 2010 12:09 pm
- Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
- Topic: Rail Riding - "How To Guide"
- Replies: 196
- Views: 256453
Re: Rail Riding - "How To Guide"
We had the pack race today and my son finished 3rd using the rail rider technique and he goes on to compete in the district race in 2 weeks. We did not have access to a track before race day so I was not sure what to expect. After the race we did get to do a few runs and analyze how the car tracked....
- Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:24 pm
- Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
- Topic: Rail Riding - "How To Guide"
- Replies: 196
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Re: Rail Riding - "How To Guide"
I have helped my son build his first rail riding car. Seems like we have the correct amount of turn, about 2 - 3 inches over 4 - 5 feet. We have the front dominant side of the car sanded in about 1/16 of an inch. One problem we are having is the rear wheel on the dominant side does not move out to t...