Help with Allora suspension

[Phubb]

Hi
Is there someone out there who can offer me some advice.
After some time re fettling my old Allora I ended up with nice new wheels / tyres and then attempted to bit by bit sort out the huge vertical gap between the top of the wheel and the bodywork above and also the fact that the wheel was buried into the wheel arch.
I'm grateful for a great deal of help with these issues from David Jowsey.
Now I'm getting somewhere, but after fitting some wheel spacers I now find, just the passenger side, the tyre makes contact with the front clam at the bottom edge on full lock. The drivers side is clear - yes the Allora chassis and body alignment was poor.
However in a rush to find a quick solution I am wondering if the caster angle could be out - ie too much off vertical. I then noticed in the "Allora build manual" a caster angle of 9 degrees is specified which may be too high ?
From my limited knowledge it seems that reducing the camber angle would effectively move the wheel rearward slightly so may solve the problem - but create another of course.
I'd appreciate any thoughts on this as my only other option is to take the spacers back off for now.
Thanks

[Normb666]

Pete, I remember the castor on mine always seemed extreme - when you put full lock on one side was jacked up and the other lowered! I can't say what the figure was from memory, but if you're altering yours then remember it'll also affect camber and tracking, so you'd be better getting it in at a proper suspension setup place or it'll end up all over the place....both figuratively and literally as you drive down the road

[Phubb]

Hi Norm,
Yes thats the problem - one thing has a knock on effect with other things. I really need to get it sorted as due to a bit of a measurement / suspension travel the top wishbone has grazed the inner wheel rim as its just too close.
There is a very good suspension place here in Northampton but whether I'll get a slot with them before the end of next week is doubtful and I really want to come to the Lakes run in the Allora and not the Volvo.

[Longtimefan]

Peter, do try and come in it, you can always avoid full lock for now, or give it a quick blip on the throttle and get the tail out when a tight turn is required!!!!!

[David J]

Peter

I have just measured my Caster angle using an ADA Camber, Caster Gauge, my Caster angle measures 3.75 degrees.

[Strat Fan]

As a quick fix to allow you to go on the run can you simply fit some lock restrictors.
These can take the form of some aluminium washers which are split at some point on their diameter and have an id of just larger than the diameter of the rack bar.
You pull the rack gaiter back, twist the washer open, slide it over the rack bar and then close it back up.
Fit them at the outer end of the rack bar behind the tie rod end and use as many as required.
They should solve your issues in the short term at the expense of a little less steering lock