Alignment Problems (3.3 Revo)

[Paxton007]

I've only posted in this forum one other time, but it was very helpful to me, so I'm gonna try again.

I crashed my 3.3 Revo the other day, and since I was left replacing a pushrod, I thought I'd do the A-Arms too (which would give me a set for parts anyway). Well I removed the broken pushrod and its match, threw on the new (I don't have the tools for the arms, it turns out) and was left with a rear axle that is way out, almost as bad as it started.

So I'm thinking there must be some kind of gauge tool, or something that I'm missing. I thought it was going to be a direct fit kind of thing. It appears I've broken something out of my skill level to replace so far, haha.

Anyway, I'm going to take a look at it again over the weekend with a friend of mine, and head to a local hobby shop to see what they tell me tonight. I just kind of wondered if anyone else went through the same thing and could give me advise from experience.

The arms look easy enough, just need more tools, which I'll pick up in the meantime.

Thank you.

 

[griff7373]

Your arm looks fine to me but I can't find my glasses today. Your tie rod looks off yo need to lengthen it and it will turn that wheel straight.

 

[Paxton007]

Oh yeah, the arms are fine. I just figured since I was pulling things off the truck I'd do some preventative maintenance and upgrade the arms. But the replacements aren't on. It was late last night, and I wanted to see how easy just this part would be.

Can I lengthen just one side of the rod, or should I try and split it between both sides? Just eyeball it, or is there some kind of tool to set on the truck and make sure everything is lined up properly? Can I lengthen the rod while it's installed, or do I have to make it right before I install it? Haha, sorry for the flood of questions.

 

[griff7373]

you will want to split the difference between the ends, mine have a nut built into the middle of them so you just turn the and it movers them either in or out. Yours doesn't have that, I would pull the one off the other side and use it a comparison for the shorter one. You will need to pull it off also to set it. RPM makes and alignment gauge for setting toe along with a camber gauge.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odk...pm+toe+gauge.TRS0&_nkw=rpm+toe+gauge&_sacat=0

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RPM-Precisi...152?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27f1b9f7a0

 

[Paxton007]

Thanks for the help. I think I'm going to take the stock rods off and try to make a template with them. I'm thinking take a piece of wood and mark out the hole locations from the stock rods, then put posts in the wood and adjust the integy rods until they fit onto the template. That should get everything lining back up where they started.

I have the parts you shared in a shopping cart, just in case.

Thank you again!

 

[Tyler B]

I use a digital caliper to measure things...makes life much easier