Camber castor kingpin adjustment
Camber castor kingpin adjustment
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dbsdave

Original Poster:

60 posts

186 months

Thursday 30th June 2011
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Hi,
Is it not true that a car has to be on its wheels to read camber, castor and kingpin angles
and can not be done with the wheels off the floor. I see some people have these gauges mounted on the brake disc and wonder why?


Steve H

6,993 posts

219 months

Sunday 3rd July 2011
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Not much point any measuring much geometry unless the car is sat at it's normal ride height and weighted up as if it had the driver in I would have thought.

chris7676

2,685 posts

244 months

Monday 4th July 2011
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The given geo settings are always for on-surface sitation. However you normally adjust them with the car lifted where the settings are most likely different. Interestingly, a hunter machine can still display on-surface numbers while the car is lifted.