Method and apparatus for modifying wheel alignment in strut type

Details Method and apparatus for modifying wheel alignment in strut type Method and apparatus for modifying wheel alignment in strut type

1989-01-17

1990-08-14

Marmor, Charles A.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Running gear

280668, 294011, B62D 1700

Patent

active

049481606

ABSTRACT:
A wheel alignment repair assembly for modifying wheel alignment in a vehicle suspension of the kind having a wheel support member and a strut with a flange protruding therefrom, the flange having a free edge, and the wheel support member and the flange having holes therethrough alignable for attachment of the wheel support member to the flange of the strut, in which the assembly includes a repair piece having a primary plate and a raised boss on the primary plate defining a step on the repair piece. The step has a shape complementary to the free edge of the flange for maintaining a snug contacting relationship with it. The primary plate may also have thereon a button adapted to snugly fill the hole in the flange when the step on the repair piece is in snug contacting relationship with the free edge of the flange. An arrangment for securing the repair piece to the flange with the step in snug contacting relationship with the free edge is included.

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