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Originally Posted by Bushbasher
Not without putting the bullbar back on to hold the front down. The car is better balanced now but the front is now stiff as well and putting that much weight in the rear will make the front do wheelstands, lol. It's too stiff at the front now too and the whole car needs softening up but the purpose of the exercise it to see if the balance stops the rear tyre wear. If it does then I'll get the extra leaf removed from the rear then put the bullbar back on. It got new front tyres last week and gets new rears this week then I'll see how they wear before attacking the rear springs.
Here is a pic of the rear tyre. This tyre came off the front about 10k km ago and still had it's shoulder.
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The tyre that went to the front was down to the canvas last week after it ate what was left of the shoulder. I've never had any vehicle do that to rear tyres like that. |
I understand you said your rear axle housing isn't bent... but the wear on that tyre and the way you describe the wagon's handling makes me think that the rear axle housing is bent... not down (lower in the middle) but back (so both wheels are pointing in towards each other at the front, pidgeoned toed)
It wouldn't take much... and might be barely noticeable to the eye. It wasn't an unusual problem to have with a 9inch axle housing in the old days... which produced the same outcomes.
I've had many leaf spring Falcons.... Lowered, lifted, soft & hard set-ups... BW, Dana & 9in... I've done fairly high Ks in All of them... All but one looked after the rear tyres, and the one that didn't was bent back in the middle and did what yours is doing. Might just pay to double check it again !??
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