Toe Out Solved Somewhat

Finally I did the alignment to STELLAR.

It has 6mm of toe-out! That's quite too much actually.

He's adjusted to 2mm toe out.

Suffice to say, I drove fast all the time last night. Max speed on the wet road 100kph. No sign of drifts and drags I should say.

Good job!

Also did the oil change.

And then bought Nasi Ayam Hainan at the famous Melawati Food Court near Telekom.

List Of Problem

I have compiled a list of possible problems since STELLAR went back from Haji the mechanic.

• Dashboard indicator light intermittent
• Fuel gauge shows low, or under redline (recently happened)
  
• Oil pressure very low
• Misfire at idle
• Bubbling at part throttle
• Bang or explosion on acceleration
• Toe out at front

STELLAR has not been tuned properly, especially the ignition timing. But I have tinkered with the mixture.

OK that is all.

Toe Out

Preliminary checks, with the aforementioned wood, shows, that my car is probably having toe-outs at the front side.

I think the rear should be fine.

I will check in detail probably tonight.

By the way, the wood is not really straight, but I took that into account already.

This Wood Is A Keeper

I believe I have an idea about checking STELLAR's alignment.

It will involve, instead of the traditional use of long sewing threads, the use of a three meter long straight wood.

The wood, or beam, used to be a refuse of our home, which origin or purpose is not known.

It has been sitting idle inside our porch for a good month, and has also been outside our house gate for about a month, until I accidentally imagined using it as an alignment checker.

So the wood is spared, and inside it went again, last Saturday.

I will check first whether the wood is truly straight. Whether it is "true", like most bodyworks repairmen will usually say.

And then, one side of the wood will be used as the checker for the front side toe, and one side for the rear toe.

The two more sides will be used to check other measurements, like the distance between the front and the rear wheel centers (wheel base).

I will have to straighten out the steering wheels first, and then the check will follows.

i have not had any idea with the type of marking to use, whether with correction fluid, or marker pen, or just a pencil. But i think a pencil may be more suitable. My son's colored pencil will be a very useful candidate in this case.

Each side will only be used for its own purpose.

And then, probably, I will use it to check on Warriors' alignment too.

Yes, I am going to just check first, and still let the alignment shop do their work. Only thing is, I can make educated guess, before and after the alignment shop do their stuffs.

The wood will definitely stay with me for a little while.

STELLAR Needing TLC

Last night, STELLAR did his last brake stunt while avoiding a stupid Waja driver who think he can control his car while driving insanely fast. Then the brakes failed altogether.

So I took half day leave today. STELLAR will need urgent brake repairs, and I need to use him everyday too.

Went to Bangi in the morning. The shop I went just before Raya Fitrah to repair our Wira seems to be a good place to do repairs.

And it's a good deal cheap too.

The leftover money is spent on doing the alignment at another shop, though the feel is far from satisfactory. But I guess the floating feeling I always feel on the road got lesser.

When I arrived at the office, I saw the toe-in of the front wheel remained the same.

Will probably head to the shop again sometimes later.


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