Mike, there used to be an old time truck repair shop in this town that had one of those spin balancers you are describing. I don't know if they still do it, but I might have to look them up. Years ago I had a Toyota Corolla that developed a terrible thump when going down the road. They tried everything to get it out, and finally one mechanic put the front wheels on one of those balancers that do the entire wheel assembly on the car. Solved the problem.

Jim: I suspect you are right. Our protractor was an old one and we found out it was reading two degrees too low, so it showed about 9 degrees on his car and when we bought a new protractor it read about 11 degrees. I have moved it back to about 6 degrees now and think that is a more reasonable number.

What confuses me on that is why then do they dial so much caster into a drag car front end? Supposedly to make it track straighter, and some of those cars are flying down the track......why don't they get the wobbles?

Don can sell the rotors and calipers to someone because the rotors are new and the calipers should be fine, but I think whoever modified the spindles took a tad too much off of one of them. The bearing is pretty sloppy on it, so I think we will just make a very pretty paperweight out of them. I wouldn't feel right if someone got them and had and accident or something.

Don