Castor/Camber Correction

Davec said:

Not that difficult, or that unusual, especially with extreme, or fast, off roading, or hitting a solid object, like a wall, with a wheel whilst driving on the road.

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it fookin is, yer know!

Now yer just worrying him all ovver agen, we'd just got him calmed down.

Not you, him. An i agree wiv Slob an Charlesy. If you'd bent yer axle then I reckon you'd have been eating hospital food since an it'll probly have to be liquidized fost.

panic! panic!

ive given up to be honest. i dove it to work today to change some UJ's and diff pinion seal. it drives fine so im just going to leave it and keep an eye on tyre wear.

from my measurements, i got the tracking spot on. should i still take it to a garage to be "done properly"?

i did the tape measure front/back thing.

G

an yu sed i ****t things up !!!!

atleast i can get some bits of plastic tubing to work

so have I , ya yung whippersnapper!

ai, only after hours of consultation!

The Mad Hat Man said:

so have I , ya yung whippersnapper!

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ee's welsh Daft, whadderyer expect?

he expects me to get it right 1st time being superior and welsh... unlike you tin'ed

Sound like a bent or broken radius arms

Roy90 said:

Sound like a bent or broken radius arms

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That knocks the whole axle out of line - no longer at right angles to the chassis.

This is bad news.

Nobody has mention the torsion arm bush's yet? or something like the wings not being alingned to the chassis.

CharlesY said:

That knocks the whole axle out of line - no longer at right angles to the chassis.

This is bad news.

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tell me more charlesY cos thats what it looks like to me would it still drive ok though? the radius arms LOOK straight and there are no obvious cracks etc.

as regards to torsion bars etc. i dont have any!.. i dont think

G

griff as you state in your first post that one roadwheel is 3cm further in at the arch, this can only point to a bent panhard rod or a mounting for it damaged, a panhard rod height and angles are set at the factory to keep the axle parrallel with the chassis as the axle travels up and down, the only true way to determine if this is out of tolerance is to remove both front road springs jack up the axle to the bump stop and take a measurement from a set point on the chassis then allow the axle to drop to its lowest point allowed by the shock travel and take another measurement, both mearurement should be the same as the panhard rod controls the arc in which the axle travels latterally. Now one way of upseting this geometry is to raise the vehicles ride height as this will alter the arc that the axle travels in.

cheers for that stig.

Even easier as a basic check is to park the car on a nice flat surface, and measure on both sides how far apart the wheels are with the steering dead straight.

They should be exactly the same within a gnat's whisker.

If they aren't then one axle is probably out of line.

Find someone to drive it, and have someone drive you in a following car. You may be able to see it 'crabbing' a bit is an axle is out of line.

CharlesY

Charles re-read post number 9, it is the side to side that is out not for and aft which is the panhard rod, also griffs 90 is lifted so the axle will now be out of line as the axle "arc" has been altered and not corrected with a lower chassis ( if lifted by 2" the mounting should be lowered by 2" to re-position the axle) mounting position for the panhard rod