WildBlue goes RideTech

[GeoffP]

In my case, no I'm not confident they're right. I don't have a good way to get the car in the air where I can get under it while also keeping the suspension loaded so I can check the angles correctly. In fact, I'm fairly confident they're wrong since the driveshaft vibration is worse now than it's ever been. I know my buddy got the axle off center when he welded the tabs on. I used the upper link adjustment to center the axle but I also think the pinion angle is nose up from what I can tell. It's definitely a problem. We even used the angle finder and measured everything multiple times. It's my fault for not checking his measurements against mine because he got in a hurry due to his welder messing up. As far as I can tell, there's no way to fix it without cutting the tabs off and welding on new ones. I've been fairly disgusted with the car this week and tried not to think about it. If I had known that Alston makes a fixture to put the upper link brackets in place with the housing out of the car, I would've just ordered it and taken the axle to someone to have the tabs installed by someone professionally. I found this out the other night - wishing I would've known sooner. The instructions for it says it works with all versions of the G-bar and G-link so I don't see why it wouldn't work with the ridetech cradle since it's actually Alston's design.

I guess I should just get the axle back out, verify that welding fixture will work with the ridetech 4-Link, order it, get new tabs, grind off the old ones and take it to have someone fix the screw up. I figure it'll cost $150-200 to correct.



I am open to suggestions!!