What are your feelings of setting the toe on your quad? I've seen statements where some like it toe-out. Why? does this make your quad more stable? or ?
Let us know what quad this is on and what your typical riding terrain is like.
I have always set my toe to toe-in about 1/4" or so on all my quads including the Zilla. I only ride sand.
manual recommends 1.4-1.6" toe-in.
I did mine at the min.
Setting the toe-in at 1.4" as per the service manual accomodates the factory bump steer.
I set my toe-in too 1/8" at static weight before the toe modification and took some measurements.
suspension fully uncompressed
2 2/3" Toe In
level a-arms to ground
1 1/8" Toe Out
suspension fully compressed
2 1/4" Toe In
So the worst part of my measured toe-out was 1.125" (1 1/8") toe-out. Setting toe at 1.4" or about 1 3/8" lets the suspension go thru its full cycle, but never going toe-out.
This makes be believe that the factory wanted these quads to have toe-in all the time.... but we all know how the factory screwed up some things on the Zilla.
I know you made the change.
Found this in my note book from Joe Byrd's riding school:
Always toe in, never toe out. Use 1/4'' to 3/8'' of toe in when measured from outside of tyre to outside of tyre.
That's for motocross though and more specifically its for a trx450r