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AssigneesToyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTrevor Raymond Lay, Eric Andrew Wiles, Tyler Brayden Monk, Connor Earl Smith, David Paul Grothen
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A vehicle wheel toe adjustment block is structured to indicate a spacing required between a feature of a steering rack assembly inner tie rod positioned in the toe adjustment block and a jam nut mounted on the inner tie rod and abutting the adjustment block, to achieve an associated toe angle in an vehicle wheel coupled to the inner tie rod. The inner tie rod feature is aligned with an indicator mark formed on the toe adjustment block. The indicator mark is spaced apart from a bearing surface against which the jam nut is to be tightened. When the inner tie rod feature is aligned with the indicator mark and the jam nut is tightened against the bearing surface, the correct toe angle for a vehicle wheel may be achieved when the outer tie rod assembly is mounted on the inner tie rod and tightened against the jam nut.
A vehicle wheel toe adjustment block structured to indicate a spacing required between a reference feature of a steering rack assembly inner tie rod positioned in the toe adjustment block and a jam nut mounted on the inner tie rod and abutting the adjustment block, to achieve an associated predetermined toe angle in an vehicle wheel coupled to the inner tie rod.
A toe adjustment assembly structured to facilitate positioning of a jam nut along each inner tie rod of a steering rack assembly mounted on the toe adjustment assembly, so as to provide a respective predetermined toe angle in a vehicle wheel subsequently coupled to a respective inner tie rod, the assembly comprising:
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