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Have You Noticed All The Crooked Pickups
nunn
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Very often, when driving behind a pickup truck, I notice that the rear wheels are not tracking behind the front. The rear is offset to the right or left by a couple of inches.
It's not an optical illusion. These trucks will leave two separate tracks after driving through a puddle.
It seems not be a particular make, but it is usually an older truck.
Is this something that just happens as the vehicle ages, or am I looking at a lot of poorly-repaired wrecks?
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It's not an optical illusion. These trucks will leave two separate tracks after driving through a puddle.
It seems not be a particular make, but it is usually an older truck.
Is this something that just happens as the vehicle ages, or am I looking at a lot of poorly-repaired wrecks?
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Measure the distance between the front hub center on the right said to the rear hub center on the same side. Compare that with the left and you will be able to tell if the frame is straight.
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I don't baby my rigs, but I don't take them out in the hills and intentionally beat the crap out of them either.
To each his own, though.
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Chrysler is probably the one most noted for this quirk, but others did it too. Assuming no wrecks, no bent frames, and no broken bolts or worn bushings, the measurement across the rear axle will be a couple of inches +/- less than across that of the front.
The reasoning is simple, but I think it's an engineering answer to a question that was never asked. It all has to do with turning radius.
In a turn the rear axle will track inside the front. In theory this could prevent a vehicle from clearing a curb (or worse) in a turn. If the rear track were to run inside the front, then the problem would be less in a turn situation.
Follow such a vehicle down the road and get a look at both sides. You'll see both front tires hanging out an inch or so. On damaged vehicles it becomes even more obvious because one side might appear to track but the other will be twice as far out as normal.
If you really want to see something funny, take a look at a Duster or Demon out of the mid 70's. They rode low enough so that you have to really look, but once you do... What a laugh!
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Edited by - sodbuster on 09/21/2002 21:30:38
The diagonals should equal each other in length.
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