Heat related problem

From : milton

Q: on 12 dec 2006 074917 -0800 halterb@aol.com halterb@aol.com wrote my right front tire pretty suddenly wore out on the outer tred row. the truck was pulling right. i put the never used spare on the right front and the truck wanted to go slightly left. had the alignment checked and everything supposedly was within specs except cross camber which was .7 left +.5/right -.2 with a notice in red that this is an unsafe condition. camber is not adjustable. place that checked alignment said pressures were wrong and changed them to 35--but the placard says 41 and the 245/75/16 tires say max 44. steering felt heavy and definitely pulling left. i ran pressure back up to 41 and it felt normal. took it to another place to check alignment and their cross camber was still .7 but shifted more to the negative--left +.4 / right -.3. the rest of the readings were within specs but considerably different than the first place. i had a near empty gas tank but 210 pounds of sand in short box bed over rear axle for ice stability. also noticed left front of vehicle seemed about one inch lower than right while left rear was only about 1/4 in lower. and i couldnt understand how - .3 would cause outside tred wear--i thought it would be inside wear. so my questions are is this really unsafe where does camber come from--control arms the fr

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From : grtartiste

on 14 dec 2006 135717 -0800 craig c. mcraigchr@gmail.com wrote lugnut wrote didnt mean to step on any toes but you didnt ... not mine anyway. reasonable success. the original rope type seal was a pos and was eventually replaced by a 2 piece metal seal with a lip to better control the oil. again ... this was a very long time ago but the rope sel was the recommendation to fix the problem. if i remember correctly the original seal was rubber. it only blew oil out the rear seal when i started the car. once it got o to idle no problems. part of the equation for a street engine is to use a 10w30 i remember that i did run 10w30 to try and stop the blow out issue. no luck. no matter now ... that car and engine have been recycled and pieces of it are spread out in newer cars. - craig c. one of these days i will have the time and finances to complete restoring my torino again. i have the powertrain built. now it is the slow hard work of body and chassis. a few hundred years from now none of this will mean anything to either of us. you have a merry christmas lugnut .