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[Icey]

I was taught back in the '60's and I use long straight edges, a tape measure, a steel rule and some beer-bottle crates. All a bit basic, but done carefully it works well.

 

I was doing this at the weekend to get the geometry roughly right. Laser line, set-square, steel rule and a couple of spirit levels. Really quite simple to get toe and camber in the ball-park, castor is proving a little more but not insurmountable.

[Cooperman]

We used to set all our cars up like that as it was the best available back then. If you do it correctly and accurately it is quite alright.

I do agree that measuring castor is much more difficult.

[Spider]

Usually a set of graduated turntables are used to measure caster, then from the numbers read off the camber gauge, the castor is calculated. I found that too slow and tedious so I have made a jig that fits over the top and bottom ball joint nuts, so now it's a direct reading, but there is no caster on the rear of these cars.

 

I did the measurements with strings as you do Cooperman for many many years, very accurate method if you take a little time and care. I made up the lazer as now I can see it from under the car as I adjust, so now there's no need to turn a bit, measure, turn a bit more, measure,,, just adjust while looking, lock off and lets go!  Kinda like reading of one of them modern digital verniers - in a way. It's fairly simple and most of the bits I bought at the hardware (mostly square section aluminium), once it was done, I calibrated it on the bench with a 1 metre ruler.

[ado15mk3]

will measure when i figure how to. 

is it like this?:

1/ install concrete bricks - one near rear wheel and one near front

2/ run nylon line between bricks and tie off at each end

3/ measure distance between centres of both wheels to the line respectively and adjust line until both measure the same

4/ measure front and rear edges of rear tyre - difference here is the toe

 

but i want to know do they generally look toe in by that much as in pic above?

can anyone show a pic of how a correctly set up rear wheel looks from above?

thanks guys

[nicklouse]

As said looks fine.

Or does not look wrong.

[ado15mk3]

hope this can help someone else.

this is my 11 yr old project and haven't seen the wheels on the car in a long time hence my confusion.

today I remembered that i had arches in storage so see before and after pics below.

it still looks a little off but much better than I first thought.

thanks for the replies.

 

W/O ARCH

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WITH ARCH

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