Just before I bought it, the car pulled to the right so the previous owner took it to dealer, did an alignment, switched the two front tires, and dealer wrote up "now pulls to the left - needs new front tires". The front tires look fine with about 1/2 life left. I switched the front tires back and now it pulls to the right a little. It's fairly slight but you need to pay attention on the freeway or you'll drift right. Just live with it or ???

BTW, my other 940 also pulls right. However both 240s go right down the middle. Is it a 940 thing? Sometimes I think alignments are a money making racket because I rarely see any difference.
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1993 240 Classic

To some extent I share your sentiment. Your post name TORQUE. I should have thought of that one. Cause I know I'm twisted. Your subject fits too. Smart!

Most of what you feel is the crown of the road. That can change and of course you cannot do much for that.

A Poster Named Will Hesper put a good site for info on this. It was Tire Rack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.

After reading it you may think a lot more about the back end. In relation to the front. You may have a worn or soft bushing somewhere.

If it were me. I would do what I was able to do on my own. Since I had a old car that needed bushings and all. I adjusted the tow-in of both tires in. To make it track more tighter inward. I only moved the adjustment two turns each. Or the nut about .100 movement up the tie rods.

I hasn't had effect on the tires because the bushings are loose. Which let the wheels naturally pull outwards. Due to the crown of the road.

I would suggest you just screw the right front "in" one turn. See how it works. If you need more turn the left front "out" one turn.

In effect you turn the front end of the car in realtion to the rear axle.

That way you won't create an effect the scrubbing action of excessive tow-in.

It will maintain the alignment settings that are supposably right from that DEALER which I have little faith in. DUH, his paperwork fix!

Tow-in or the lack there of, will let the car hunt or drift. But there is a limit how much can be used.

In the article you will read about negative camber. If applied to you right tire can accomplish the correction but it's not easy to move without a way to float the wheel and read the adjustment. That's why they make the equipment.

It makes it easy and some quick bucks for them.

You know, these specifications came about by having some 1930's "college boy" (from Black Sheep Squadron) following an old time mechanic around. Taking notes for a manual! His son is that over paid CEO of an alignment company now!

These things were set by the mechanic flying by the seat of his pants on this stuff. It was and still is not rocket science.

It maybe more accurate with LASER but it's more a "perception" to sell the public!
Like nitrogen in the tires. When air is already 80 percent that stuff.

Anyway ,read up some. I'm sure other BBers nave a couple cents to spend.

Phil

Thanks for the info. I'll look into the reference and suggestions.
I did realize some of it is the slope of the road (not exactly crown on the Freeway because it usually only goes to one side. However not all is explained by slope of road because as I said the 240 tracks straight on the same roads the 940 pulls.
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1993 240 Classic; 1993 945 Turbo; 1992 944 Turbo; 1997 850 GLT