Williams tracking - stressing me out...

[White16valver]

I've posted over on WC but thought I'd post here as well, as I know that the super-knowledgable edde may be able to shed some light on things... lol

I recently had the tracking laser-aligned as I'd had a bearing and driveshaft done and I think that put it all out. It certainly was handling a bit weirdly afterwards! lol

The problem I have is that it now feels a bit 'floaty' - it doesn't want to turn it, it wanders around under power, and it doesn't feel planted under braking or during cornering :dapprove:

I've checked the settings they tracked it to against edde's very useful chart in this thread (thank you very much edde ) and it appears that mine are different?

I think they set it to 0degrees10' toe out? (I think that's how you write it - I don't know how you get the little degrees symbol to come up ) but edde's chart says toe in between 0degrees10' and 0degrees30'?

Could this be why it's fooked? I haven't got the "Before" sheet in front of me but I'm sure it was about 0degrees10' toe in when I took it to get done, and that didn't want to turn into bends either so now I'm confused:S

I just want it to work

 

[BRUN]

how are your track rod ends and ball joints ?

 

[White16valver]

Ball joints came on the brand new renault willy wishbones I got when I willified it about a year ago (I think?).

Track rod ends are ok afaik, tracking guy didn't say anything about them other than they were seized and needed oxy to get them loose lol

 

[Shorty434]

Just take it back and ask to look at all the gauges...Certainly shouldn't make it worse, unless you have a problem with the steering rack. Did it pull or anything before you had it looked at?
Thing is, if it's been lowered, the tracking will never be spot on.

 

[edde]

Take it back and get them to check and setup as per the guidlines and check it done right (sometimes best going elsewhere).

 

[White16valver]

It's one of these Hunter 4-wheel laser setups that I've used before - last time it came out great but they seem to have used different settings this time :S

Last time (apologies for the tiny pic):

This time:

One appears to be toeing in and one appears to be toeing out? I think the different model names at the top might be a bad sign...

The thing is that this time round, before it was set up, it looked like this:

which is very similar to when it was set up last time, but it was handling possibly worse than it is now as it *really* didn't want to turn in and was following cambers etc shockingly badly. It's not tyre pressures as I keep them topped up regularly, so I think it might be steering rack, as suggested above and on WC