Hi everybody. I have a question of the Brute Force 750 tie rods. I busted my originals this past weekend, and decided to buy the diamond rods and ends. My question is, how do I set my toe? The guy on the phone told me an eighth of an inch. Is that total, or each tire? I thought measuring the new ones and presetting to the old ones would be a good start. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot.

 

The .125 (1/8") is the total difference from the center of the front of the tire verses the center of the back of the tire. If the distance between the front of your tires is 45.000" then the distance at the center of the rear of the tire would be 45.125". This allows your tires to be slightly pointed toward each other at the front. This will give better high speed handling

I just replaced mine with the diamond g, and unfortunately the method you described wont work too well. The tie rod ends are of a different size then the stock unit so the overall dimension will be different. If you try to measure from center post to center post on the tie rods that might work. It's just difficult to get a measurement on something that's made to move. I had to disassemble my stock tie rods to get the RH hex nuts but I measured them prior to disassembly.

Get a couple of tie downs and secure your handle bars straight. Get an estimate of what your tie rod length should be and install them. Make equal adjustments on both sides until you get the desired toe in. I set mine at .125 toe in measured at the front most point on the tire. The tire center line was used for a reference. I used a set of 48" calipers, but this level of accuracy is totally unnecessary, they were just available.

 

Thanks for your input, I appreciate it. This will be the first, and hopefully last, time I'm going to tackle this. Your input is really appreciated. Just wondering where in Phoenix you take yours. I lived in Peoria and Chandler and we used to take our trucks to the "river bottom" off of 107th(?) and Camelback. I know they were chasing people out of there though before I moved back to Chi town.

 

I live in North Phoenix so I ride out by lake Pleasant and Bartlett lake. I will go over to Sycamore canyon by Saguaro lake sometimes also.

 

set it at dead zero.

 

Hey Alltoos. Why do you think dead center? I honestly don't know much about toe and all that stuff so that's why I'm asking.