| Mitch, lemme know I am curious now, my days of shade tree mechanics are over other than restoring my Unimogs, but here is why I am curious, a front wheel has four angles to comply with, toe in, toe out, camber, and caster and a brief description for each is,<br> <br> Toe-in, the difference in measurement of the distance between the extreme front and extreme rear.<br> <br> Toe-out, the variation in turning angle of the wheel to avoid side slip or turns.<br> <br> Camber, is the angle formed by the true vertical center line and the center line of the wheel.<br> <br> Caster, is the angle measured between a true vertical line through the center of the wheel and the and the center line through the ball joints or king pin, the caster angle is what makes a car to self center, in other words if you are turning and let go of the steering wheel while the vehicle is going it will tend to go straight ahead, obviously the ML has a low caster angle because is slow in returning to center, but it has an advantage in bad terrain and creates less strain on the turning mechanism, also in reverse the wheels will turn opposite less violently.<br> <br> There are a few ways of adjusting those angles, if camber and caster can not be adjusted it means that the ML is assambled with extreme precicion, but then what do you do under a hard impact to the suspension, no way to compensate? I find it hard to believe but then again I am new to the ML, that is why I am interested. |