Setting camber yourself...

[RichCup]

Thought I'd look into this to see if it was possible. Using something like this:

http://www.motorsport-tools.com/ind..._id=87&zenid=a44936758438b8d6dfe943af72ec798f

It can be used for castor and camber. Say if I got that and was able to make a decent job of it, would there be any disadvantage as opposed to taking it to a place that could setup the suspension for me? Without corner weighting that is.

Could even knock up a home made camber gauge pretty easy I guess, but for the price of this I may as well buy one.

Thoughts?

 

[Andrew Cooke]

I've always used a spirit level and a steel rule

 

[m0ssy]

How can you measure the camber with a spirit level? Or is that just for getting it a 0deg? Wanna know cause I want to have a go at mine so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

 

[chrispy.clio]

It depends how flat you floor is. The race team i work for have 4 metal plates which are on little feet. We set the floor up to its perfectly flat then we use a didital camber gauge which goes into a triangle frame which we place up to the wheel.

 

[Andrew Cooke]

It depends how flat you floor is. The race team i work for have 4 metal plates which are on little feet. We set the floor up to its perfectly flat then we use a didital camber gauge which goes into a triangle frame which we place up to the wheel.

Indeed, I find getting the floor flat to be the hardest job. I will one day set up a true flat patch in my garage....

btw, most digital gauges aren't that accurate (I wouldn't trust one beyond 0.25 deg), they are prone to errors that just can't occur with a bubble.


stand level vertical with the bottom edge against the rim at the bottom, hold the level vertical and measure distance from top of rim to level. I used to work out the angle, nowadays I just work in mm.

I use toe strings to set the toe, 2 poles with grooves cut at the same width, a length of fishing line, and some tyraps to attached the poles to the car front and rear.

 

[powey]

Indeed, I find getting the floor flat to be the hardest job. I will one day set up a true flat patch in my garage....

btw, most digital gauges aren't that accurate (I wouldn't trust one beyond 0.25 deg), they are prone to errors that just can't occur with a bubble.


stand level vertical with the bottom edge against the rim at the bottom, hold the level vertical and measure distance from top of rim to level. I used to work out the angle, nowadays I just work in mm.

I use toe strings to set the toe, 2 poles with grooves cut at the same width, a length of fishing line, and some tyraps to attached the poles to the car front and rear.

Want to do mine?

 

[Andrew Cooke]

Want to do mine?

LOL, no

 

[powey]

LOL, no

Boooo...:rasp:

 

[dzm]

If you've got an iphone or itouch there's a digi angle finder app that's very accurate. Of course, the flat floor is the tricky part.
Adjusting camber will affect toe, so you need to adjust toe after setting camber. I got mine done by a guy specializing in race and track car set-up for £50 the other day.

 

[RichCup]

Bit of a fail on my part, I wouldn't be able to really set the toe with that bit of kit lol whereas obv a setup place will do.

Will see who's local that could do it I think.

 

[Hutchie]

if you can get an iphone to acurately tell you degree's from north you can set toe at home???

i use tracking gear at work and spirit level for camber