Measuring ride height - setup blocks / gauges?

Brian Degulis · Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 12:00 pm Post subject:

I want to know how you get away with working on a kart in your living room? Your either single or married a good one.

Brian

Morgan Schuler · Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 12:16 pm Post subject:

Google and download the CRG and Arrow chassis setup guides. Both are basically the same and will answer your questions.

Chris Reinhardt · Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 1:54 pm Post subject:

Cesar, either you lay the kart on the ground and have somebody sit in the seat, loosen the cassettes and let everything slide up (axle high, low ride height) or you put the kart on the stand, loosen the cassettes and push the axle down, (axle low, high ride height).

Those are your two positions for the rear.

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Cesar Rull · Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 2:25 pm Post subject:

ok so its against either end top of bottom of the holes. No middle or in between, interesting? They should make two sets of whole to ensure the settings don't get accidentally changed. (I am use other chassis makers do maybe?)

I guess I need to lose all 3 cassettes. Wall my car has the right side completely different than the other as you can see in the pictures.

Chris Reinhardt · Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 2:29 pm Post subject:

Cesar Rull · Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 2:33 pm Post subject:

Cesar Rull · Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 2:58 pm Post subject: Update...

I able to loosen it all up and I am using a special low profile kart stand LOL
I looked at the CRG setup guide but unlike the arrow one it doesn't have images. Thanks for suggesting that Morgan.

the biggest challenge it to make it look like I am NOT working on it ON the carpet. lol

Cesar Rull · Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:07 pm Post subject: Front the CRC Manual

"Remember that ride height is literally how high the Kart is above the track. So raising the height of the rear of the kart will require placing the bearing carrier bolts in the lower bolt holes"

The last sentence is very interesting, when I lowered the axle, it slid backwards some and I can only use TWO bolt holes at the bottom as opposed to THREE on the top in the opposite axle configuration... maybe I need to look closer.

Right now with not engine in the way and not axle gear and chain this is all very easy to do.. I imagine that do to this, chain and gear will need to come off.

Any particular torque settings these bolts should be tightened too ? (I have a TQ wrench) and use it religiously on the "real" car when working on the suspension.

Cesar Rull · Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:55 pm Post subject: This is what the axle sits

So I was able to loosen all the bearing carries and positioned the axle in the lowest setting.

There are several holes on the cassette bracket I am sure they are for other things. I wonder if those extra holes are to adjust wheel base?

Regarding the cassettes:

I noticed that they were not 100% true spinning on the axle. As I would rotate they would rotate freely and eventually come with contact with the chassis bracket. The axle was not pinned at all so maybe since it was angled that was causing that ? Can those be damaged?

John Matthews · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 5:55 am Post subject:

Irrelevant until you get to the track. Make your adjustments there and keep a log of changes and how the affect lap time.

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Oscar Aguilera · Joined: 18 Jul 2001 Posts: 1614

there is a way to use a chassis table or any perfectly flat surface and use dial indicators to get the axle perfectly level to the frame rails. Jason Kings dad used to have that set up.

but that is too much for me to want to do, but some of you engineer types will!

on a side note...i mostly ran my axle all the way up...which lowers ride height.

judging from the wear marks it looks like you axle was also mosltly all the way up...lowering the ride height. that is where i would start if i were you.

just my opinion

Cesar Rull · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:45 am Post subject:

Oscar , John , then thing is (if you read the thread) that one side was low and other side was high. So I am taking this opportunity to go to a base setup. The CRG setup mentions the higher ride height as the starting point. So let's start there.

John Matthews · Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:43 am Post subject: