THE BLUE BIRD BOUNCE

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(06-02-2013 22:06)davidmbrady Wrote:  That's great Chuck. I'm looking forward to a followup road test report! I'm currently running 3 and 3.5 deg of caster. An increase has been on my ToDo list for far too long. What technique will the shop be using to give you more caster?

Regarding the anti-sway bar. It's not just my suggestion, it's Ridewell's too. I gave Bill Mattocks at Ridewell the dimensions for our steer axle sway bars and he was astonished. He said he wouldn't even use something that stiff on the drive axle. If we were to retain the same width and arm dimensions Bill suggested a bar of around 1 5/8" in diameter would be suitable. No other Ridewell equipped Wanderlodge has a steer axle anti-sway bar and they all handle fine.

David,

I'm such a dummy on the process they use to set camber. But as I understand it; their alighment machine has the capability (by laser) of setting a precise degree of caster angle. I guess I'm at their mercy as I didn't look at the alignment machine. I was so sobbing over the estimated overall repairs bill; I couldn't have seen anything anyway.

I just like this bus and I know I'll end up spending too much on it because of that. I'm just getting too old and too lazy to do much of the grunt work myself. I'll do the easy things and pay to have the hard stuff done.: