Can someone explain (or lead me to a website on) how to adjust the steering on a direct drive trike?
Our Hotmover has always pulled a little to the right, but recently it's gotten worse.
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I'm not a hotmover's expert, but I play one on TV (Just had to say that). From what you described,
it may be an uneven caster alighnment problem. Perhaps you hit a curb and tweaked the front end.
Check you alignment, ensure that the king pin trajectories point in the same position on the tire
patch. If this problem is getting worse, I think that you may have an imminent failure.Regards,
Rickey Horwitz "Kat9774" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Can someone explain (or lead me to a website on) how to adjust the
steering onQuoted message said:
a direct drive trike? Our Hotmover has always pulled a little to the
right,Quoted message said:
but recently it's gotten worse.
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Did you let E* D***n borrow it? That would explain it's right leaning tendencies. "Kat9774"
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but recently it's gotten worse.
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Kat9774, your trike pulls to the right. Look at the following:
1) Low right front tire
2) Dragging right front brake
3) Riding on crowned roads, slight pulling to the right is normal.
4) Loose steering kingpin or tierod end.
5) Are tires worn unevenly?
6) Severe accident, bending frame.Dave
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Can someone explain (or lead me to a website on) how to adjust the steering on a direct drive
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Thanks Dave and Rick for sticking with the question asked.
I appreciate it.
Chris J.
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1) Low right front tire
2) Dragging right front brake
3) Riding on crowned roads, slight pulling to the right is normal.
4) Loose steering kingpin or tierod end.
5) Are tires worn unevenly? -
Kat9774 said:
Can someone explain (or lead me to a website on) how to adjust the steering on a direct drive
trike? Our Hotmover has always pulled a little to the right, but recently it's gotten worse.If you don't get a solution here, you could try asking on the trikes mailing list
(ihpva.orgtrikesOpen ↗) - I believe Hamish Gale is a subscriber, although he
hasn't posted lately.--
Carol Hague "The glassblower's cat is bompstable"
- Dorothy L. Sayers, _Clouds of Witness_
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