Crabbing

[DaveG28]

Noticed at the end of this weekend that my Bmax appears to have a crabbing issue, the steering is set turning right for the car to go straight!?

Everything looks straight in terms of the suspension, is there any way for this to be a driverrain issue?

Or could it be because I tend to use individual cambers on each wheel (eg I set it to wear out the centre treads on each tyre, not matching left to right?)

Unfortunately I am doing a lot of this from line of sight as I don't have a setup station or anything to use, so any ideas appreciated!!

[Southwell]

Well if it's crabbing i would say something has bent or broken.

[DaveG28]

Could it be my rear shocks? If one compresses differently to the other it may throw the side to side rodeheight out I guess?

[Nick Goodall]

It wasn't something you noticed when you were driving on Astro or Carpet was it??

[Southwell]

Could be a tweak if it is.

[sosidge]

Setting individual cambers is a bit strange as we race on tracks with left and right turns, I just have mine at about 2 degrees and "eyeballed" to be even all round. It goes without saying that your shocks need to be even left and right and that the suspension should move freely.

Crabbing sounds a bit strange - although I have managed to fudge my rear gearbox (setting the mesh too loose - see my earlier thread :doh: ), and when the car was running virtually front-wheel-drive at the end of my final yesterday it did pull to the left a little on power - so check that you are getting correct drive too.