My mate Kevin is determined to sort this problem out so he came over today with some shims - this is what shims look like nowadays apparently! Sheets of plastic in different thicknesses that you cut with a pair of sciscors - what is the world coming too?
Anyway, we jacked the TR up, removed the wheels and put a dial gauge on the discs. Only 1 thou out on the offside but 7 thou out on the nearside.
That doesn't sound enough to make a difference but we went to work on the nearside. This involved removing the disc and fitting shims between the hub and disc - several times!
We got the run-out down to 4 thou and then reassembled it all for a test drive - no difference.
We really thought that 4 thou wouldn't matter anyway so now we were stumped.
Half and hour after Kevin left he called me back - he has been informed by a chief techie at a rally team that 4 thou will definitely give a problem.
Next step is to remove the whole assembly and then it goes into Kevin's machine shop (he is a director of an engineering company) to be trued up on a rather expensive lathe - then we'll see what difference that makes.
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