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Old 10-07-2014, 05:39 PM   #2
davepl
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Re: frame twisted or trailer arm?

It's hard to tell from photos. It's looks wrong in many ways but most of that is camera angles, because it looks different from one photo to the next.

I think your best bet is to get a yellow legal pad and a yellow tape measure and start measuring corner to corner on everything you can find. You'll find out what's wrong soon enough. Anything within 1/16" is "perfect". Anything within 1/8" is darn close. If you start getting 1/4" difference from opposing corners I'd really scrutinize those dimensions.

Sometimes it's just bad luck of a lot of in-tolerance things adding up to out-of-tolerance, but I'm going to guess you have a more serious misalignment.

Edit: Those are just my own personal benchmarks for placement accuracy. Not from the assembly manual or anything official.
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