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When I rebuilt the rear suspension I fitted all new bonded rubber bushes, UJs, wheel bearings and brake discs... so I had to shim the discs to centre them in the calipers. Then I had to shim the driveshafts to set the rear wheel negative camber, but as the old shims were so rusty it was hard to get an accurate thickness of the stack, so I waved a finger in the air and shoved in a random number of shims on each side.
I knew once the car had an MOT I'd have to set up the camber sharpish (or get someone else to do it, which is like having unlimited access to Rachel Riley and sending your grandad instead
).
As luck would have it Aldi were having a clearance of a last week's bargain tools so just for a laugh (and 12 quid) I bagged a digital spirit level. It was the work of a few minutes in the metrology lab at work to prove that it's actually a sight more accurate than I expected it to be, so with the aid of an offcut of alloy angle across the wheel rims I recorded these results:
Not a bad guesstimate although it does mean the left-hand tyre scrubs the wheelarch over bumps.
So I jacked the back end up, whipped the wheels off and dropped a couple of shims out of each side... then it was time for tea, so I need to drive the car around the block to settle everything before I recheck it.
I knew once the car had an MOT I'd have to set up the camber sharpish (or get someone else to do it, which is like having unlimited access to Rachel Riley and sending your grandad instead
).As luck would have it Aldi were having a clearance of a last week's bargain tools so just for a laugh (and 12 quid) I bagged a digital spirit level. It was the work of a few minutes in the metrology lab at work to prove that it's actually a sight more accurate than I expected it to be, so with the aid of an offcut of alloy angle across the wheel rims I recorded these results:
Not a bad guesstimate although it does mean the left-hand tyre scrubs the wheelarch over bumps.
So I jacked the back end up, whipped the wheels off and dropped a couple of shims out of each side... then it was time for tea, so I need to drive the car around the block to settle everything before I recheck it.
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