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I'm continuing from where I left off a few months ago here... I had some excessive toe out on the rear left of my L-series and some good advice wa given here on the forum.

I've finally got around to trying these:

a) changing the trailing arm and hub
b) changing the rear crossmember
c) changing the diff hanger
(all swapped with parts from my spare car)

However, there is still a good pull to the right. My local Beaurepaires did the wheel alignment and gave me the bad news that this wheel was 10mm out months ago and I'm wondering if it their assessment/alignment may have been not quite perfect. I have known that that wheel has had some alignment issues for a couple of years though - just nowhere near that significant.

So, I'm going to go back to the front of the car and loosen off the lift blocks at that end and let the pieces sort themselves out at that end before tightening them off too. Does this sound like a good policy? After that I'll get another alignment done - perhaps somewhere else too.

Alex

Yeah its common problems with ageing cars, my best advice would be to replace all rubber bushes, I had that problem with Holden JE Camira in the past and replaced the bushes and problem was solved, yes it was costly but it costed me for wheel alignment all the time but the last one when i replaced the bushes was free.
Cheers
AP

I'm guessing you've done this but... lift the back of car up and loosen the trailing arm bolts[the 3 together] so wheels drop and thn re tighten.If you are hard or jump your car the wheels will get excessive toe as the trailing arm shifts on the bolts.As suggested new bushes but they are bastards to get in and out.

You could try something similar to what i did on the back of my ute, but change the Kmac kit to horizonal instead of vertical adjustment, thus giving toe adjustment. See the below thread for details. Just an idea

showthread.php?t=5977&page=3&highlight=rear

Thanks for the advice guys,

I've done the loosening of the bolts on the trailing arms before, twice and not got a significant improvement. Through swapping the complete rear end crossmember, trailing arms and diff hanger I figured this should have fixed everything but it hasn't yet. I've been re-adjusting the front wheel alignment and much of the problems have gone, there is still a small pull to the right now.

I know that the bushes on the trailing arms I've fitted aren't perfect, however, if I change the hubs/control arms back over to the better ones then I'm also putting on the ones with worn bearings. I'll be taking my pick of the worse evil or paying for one (the bushes) or the other (the bearings) to be replaced professionally. I'm otherwise out of ideas on how to fix this jolly thing.

Oh, and thanks for the idea of the rear camber adjustment kit but that extra dosh and work doesn't grab me. I appreciate the effort in finding the link for me, though.