Home made camber gauge
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I needed to set my camber up and being a cheapskate didnt want to pay to have it done. I have used a caster/camber gauge in the past and they are just an expensive spirit level, (unless you have a laser set up). Admittedly you only have to dial in the settings rather than work it out for yourself, but its not too difficult using trigonometry and you can make one easily. Plus the fact I am no Lewis Hamilton, and most people like me would not be able to tell by performance on the road if the camber is out ever so slightly. You can get it quite accurate enough for most peoples use. I used a scrap piece of ally angle and a couple of bolts set at the rim diameter, I can adjust the gauge now by moving the bolts in and out to get different settings. I worked out that the top bolt needs to be set at 7.1mm further out than the lower bolt to achieve the right setting for an S Camber setting.Didn't bother with the 0.1mm LOL.
Nice one. When I didn't know any better I paid around £150 for a digital camber gauge from DTs, all it is is a builders digi level mounted to a bit of pressed steel and probably costs no more that £20 all in. To save the calculations you could have used something like this http://www.wholesaletoolwarehouse.com/building/lev... although you could add a line with a plumb bob on and a marked gauge to what you have.
Edited by jagracer on Thursday 12th July 18:27
shoab said:
Thats what I love about this site...simple, practical but effective advice ! Glad to see I'm not the only tight wad.....shall I tell you the one about the column switch cowl with the snapped off lugs, the araldite and the strips of aluminium sheet........
Regards
Graham
Shall I tell you the one about the flywheel, the starter ring gear, the kitchen oven and the electric freezer? I'll leave out the bit about my mum's reaction at the time, that wasn't pleasant... (jeesus that was almost 40 years ago, doesn't time fly?)Regards
Graham
tvrgit said:
Shall I tell you the one about the flywheel, the starter ring gear, the kitchen oven and the electric freezer? I'll leave out the bit about my mum's reaction at the time, that wasn't pleasant... (jeesus that was almost 40 years ago, doesn't time fly?)
Hello tvrgit 
, sounds interesting, shall I tell you about the crankshaft pulley, the plenum chamber and the dishwasher and my wife`s reaction 
all of this has been on my website for 18 months or so and was also in the Sprint article I wrote some time ago. Even the triganometry bit is on the diagram for those not too good at maff...mafem...sums
mep12345 said:
all of this has been on my website for 18 months or so and was also in the Sprint article I wrote some time ago. Even the triganometry bit is on the diagram for those not too good at maff...mafem...sums
MarkI hope you don't mind, just to clarify the chronology, if I point out that those photos I posted above are extracted from my own web diary almost 3 years ago, November 2009 to be exact, and also included (first, if your 18 months is correct) the exact trigonometry used to set it up.
http://www.andrewc.org.uk/tvrgit/nov09.html#d27
Just in case there's any misunderstanding about plagiarism...
tvrgit said:
Mark
I hope you don't mind, just to clarify the chronology, if I point out that those photos I posted above are extracted from my own web diary almost 3 years ago, November 2009 to be exact, and also included (first, if your 18 months is correct) the exact trigonometry used to set it up.
http://www.andrewc.org.uk/tvrgit/nov09.html#d27
Just in case there's any misunderstanding about plagiarism...
Yep agreed, wasn't bothered about chronology, more pointing out that the method is there for open use rather than just being in a forum threadI hope you don't mind, just to clarify the chronology, if I point out that those photos I posted above are extracted from my own web diary almost 3 years ago, November 2009 to be exact, and also included (first, if your 18 months is correct) the exact trigonometry used to set it up.
http://www.andrewc.org.uk/tvrgit/nov09.html#d27
Just in case there's any misunderstanding about plagiarism...
When trying to adjust the camber on my own I could pull the wheel into a rough position but to get it accurate enough it was impossible to keep the wheel in position and tighten the bolts so I came up with this idea.....not sure what other people have done but this was my solution, it was really easy to get it bang on using the spirit level method....
The wood was drilled and a long thread with two nuts and washers inserted I could then adjust the wheel position to whatever I wanted to achieve the correct camber setting by winding the nuts out. If anyone else does this it would be better to use harder wood than I did and make sure the thread it a tight fit in the wood.
Regards
Graham
The wood was drilled and a long thread with two nuts and washers inserted I could then adjust the wheel position to whatever I wanted to achieve the correct camber setting by winding the nuts out. If anyone else does this it would be better to use harder wood than I did and make sure the thread it a tight fit in the wood.
Regards
Graham
Use the scissor jack out the boot?
Turn it with a screwdriver.
I have used the scissor jack for a few things - particularly useful to push the gearbox over to get the rear mounting lined up on the V8s.
It just fits up the side of the gearbox / chassis.
Turn it with a screwdriver.
I have used the scissor jack for a few things - particularly useful to push the gearbox over to get the rear mounting lined up on the V8s.
It just fits up the side of the gearbox / chassis.
Edited by Barkychoc on Saturday 21st July 17:00
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