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I'm in a bit of a hurry because I'm getting ready to leave on vacation early
tomorrow morning but here's a ruff.
Camber - with the car on a flat floor, wheels pointed straight ahead,
take a carpenter's square and a ruler and measure the distance to the top and
bottom edges of the rim. If they are the same, the camber is zero. It is
adjusted by shims between the shock tower and the upper A-frame pivot and you
must shim front and back equally or you will also affect caster. Shimming them
further out increases camber (+) and removing shims decreases camber (-).
Normally you want a zero or slightly positive camber.
This should not have been affected by changing steering tie rods.
I do toe-in this way (and there are a lot of ways to do it)
Jack up each front wheel and put a strip of 2" masking tape around the center
of the tread, making sure it is well stuck and not wrinkled. With the wheel
still jacked up, turn the wheel and make a mark on the tape all the way
around. I usually keep the pen from moving by laying it on a block very
close to the tire tread. If the mark doesn't line up when you get all the
way around, you moved the pen. Doesn't make much difference where the mark
is on the tape but the center of the tread is easiest.
After you have done this on both front wheels, let them down so that they
are sitting on the ground. It's good practice to push the bumper down a time
or two to make sure the suspension is at rest. Then measure between the
marks front and rear. Should be about 1/16" less in front than in back.
(You'll need help doing this unless you make some kind of adjustable gage.
A tape measure works but you need a reliable helper.)
If it is not what you want, loosen the nuts at the end of the center tube
of the center tie rod and adjust it in small increments, tightening the nuts
and relieving stress by jacking one wheel briefly and let it down before
measuring again. This is harder to describe than to do, by the way.
Once you have done it a time or two it comes a lot easier.
--
George Downs, The "original" Walrus3, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
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