The alignment shop won't even know it's different unless they check the
angle of the right wheel when the left wheel is turned away from straight
ahead. The shorter idler arm will make the Ackerman angle be wrong in a
turn, but the car will still track fine straight ahead. I can't estimate
the danger, but driving a car this way will have more of a tendency to
understeer, and to go into a skid on slippery surfaces, because the two
front wheels will have to slide slightly in a turn. Maybe this is too small
an effect to notice, but they must have made the Imperial arm longer for a
reason.
Dick Benjamin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bar00n" <baroon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: IML: Idler Arm Replacement found
> I wonder if an alignment shop would know the difference or if they have to
> do something different to compensate for it.
>
> Carl
> http://www.robdiesel.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Ingraham" <jeff_ingraham@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Just to chime in here... My brother has had a 68
> Chrysler 300 Idler arm on his 67 Imp for about 4 years
> with no adverse effects. The differences in angle
> and or length of maybe 1/4 of an inch was about the
> only difference between the 2 when you laid them next
> to each other.
>
>
>
>
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