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Re: rough setting of camber
« Reply #15 on: 26 January 2012, 19:56:34 »

I used a digital angle gauge on mine, largely because I already had it. These are readily available and cost less than £30.

It's magnetic, so I found a short length of angle iron and cable tied that to the wheel. This was after I had zeroed it on the rest of the angle iron laid between the front wheels.

Then we loosened the strut bolts, and with the car on it's wheels set the camber by moving the wheel(and therefore the hub) with a long pole(padded jack handle). The hardest part was tightening the bolts again as access is very limited with the car on the ground!

This worked pretty well until the O/S bolts loosened and killed the inside edge of the tyre.

This is technique is similar to one a friend uses on his single seat race car, so is certainly going to get it pretty close IF carried out with care.
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