Camber Gauge

[Guest TerryBarry]

I can understand the principle of this gauge - but does anyone have experience of using this or something like it .

Christmas is coming etc. etc.

I do realise on the 2B+ the adjustment precision is + one complete turn of the upper ball joint into the wishbone

[Dave R]

never used one like that, but surely without the car sitting on its wheels, you cant do it anyway ? and that one is on the brake disk ?

[Mat-Moo]

With no wheel on, and the car not sitting on the ground, how will the disc still be pointing int he correct direction as it will be being held by suspension alone? Nice idea, but I honestly can't see how it works!

[Snapperpaul]

Demon tweeks do a more complicated version from £ 94 and then you have to buy a castor/camber guage adaptor £46 to use it on the wheel rim. i think you could make one easily for a few pence, thats the adaptor not the guage.

[Guest TerryBarry]

I thought about the problem of having to take the wheel off.

Looking at my cars, it would probably work with four or five spoke alloys but many more spokes or pressed steel wheels you'd be stymied.

[Snapperpaul]

A thought, if you supported the car both sides on the lower track arm or lower ball joint at the normal standing height it should work with wheels off.

[Mitch]

this may come out wrong, but

i once saw an article in one of the kit car mags, which they used a normal 2' spirit level with two drilled and tapped holes in to take a 10mm bolt, holes were drilled to sit on the rim of a 15" wheel and the thread size worked out at 1mm pitch which over that distance was 1 degree, it looked like the adaptor in Snapperpauls post,

so from level (or close enough for us) unscrewing/screwing the bolt in one rev was one degree,

 

not sure if thats clear but it was an inexpensive way of doing it yourself,

less than a tenner compaired to the 140 from Dthieves, for what was basically the same,

 

HTH

Mitch

[Snapperpaul]

From the wonderfully instructive and easily viewable build videos Richard taped a one 13mm nut to the bottom of a spirit level and 2 to the top and used this to set the camber

[Guest elwe]

I sent the camber on our 2B the night before SVA by using the straight offcut from the multibend tube. I cut it to the right length to go across the rim without touching the tyre. Then I parked the car on the flat and sandwiched the tube between the rim and a spirit level. The tube was acting as a spacer so the spirit level could be parallel to the rim. I then loosened the nut on the end of the Mcphersons struct (its a 2B/4) and knocked it into line with my hand.

 

I went for 1 degree in at the top and got it on one side. The other side was 3 degrees in when it was checked with a laser setup after SVA. I didn't think that was too bad.

[steve in stockport]

saw a review on a gauge very similar to this in car mechanic magazine whilst i was doing some free reading in wh smith the other day.

the reviewer seemed to think that you could possibly use it on a car with open suspension by fixing the device to the insde face of the brake disc while wheel is still on and under load

said fixing to the disc should give a true reading if the disc was in good condition as the disc is parallel to the wheel rim, hub etc etc

 

steve

[Guest Cantbearsed]

I have one of those sealy camber gauges. It' basically a spirit level which you PRE-SET using a known angle then transfer the gauge to the car wheel or brake disk/ hub if supported, as said before, under the lower arms.

 

A bit heath-robinson in it's aproach, but does the trick if used correctly.

The tricky bit is setting it up correctly in the first place.

 

1 degree steel inclined plane laying about anywhere anyone......?

[Dave R]

i did mine roughly the sae but with an engineeers protractor square, and a bit of bar cut to fit the wheel

[Guest FIRSTBUILD]

how do you measure degrees with the spirit level ?

 

thanks

[Guest docter fox]

write numbers on the bit of glass with the bubble in, I might get the protractor and try it

[Guest Phil Slater]

how do you measure degrees with the spirit level ?

 

I bought a cheap inclinometer from Warehouse Direct which can be held against the side of the Spirit Level.