[T3] Camber Problems

[Jim Adney]

On 15 Sep 2011 at 23:46, Jim Adney wrote:

> On 15 Sep 2011 at 21:08, Brent Bottolfson wrote:
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> > Regarding my camber issues:  I took the 'new' beam out of my SUV today 
> > and put it in the garage.  First thing I noticed was that the long tie 
> > rod on the right side was straight.  The one on the beam now has a bend 
> > right in the middle of it.  I didn't have another to compare it to, and 
> > thought it was there to clear the frame head.  So, now I'm thinking that 
> > whatever happened to bend the tie rod like that was enough to 
> > damage/bend something else on that side resulting in my out of whack camber.

Thinking about this overnight, I realized that if you were measuring 
your camber angle with the toe-in way out of whack, that would give 
you bad camber angle numbers, due to the caster angle. There's 
interplay in all these measurements. It's possible that the only part 
that's bent is the tie rod.

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Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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