<VV> Camber

[Bryan Blackwell]

Hi Byron,

To elaborate a bit, the distance between the points where you are measuring affects how much movement you need to change an angle.  Consider a right triangle - if you cut off a piece so the triangle is shorter but still has the same angles, the sides will all be shorter.

So, if you are measuring camber using the wheel as your measuring point, you'll find that putting a shim in at the a-arm results in a larger movement at the wheel.  But, what you're interested in is the angle and you're just using the distance to determine that angle.

Hope that helps.

--Bryan

On Aug 29, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Byron Comp wrote:

> In his piece written for CORSA Tech Guide (Vol. 3, pp.27-29), Al Huston provides 
> a very detailed description of how to do a "Home Front End Alignment" on a LM. 
> In it he states, "(The early model Corvairs use shims at the upper A-arm 
> cross-shaft. I may recap this discussion at a later date with a follow-up on the 
> technique involved in adjusting a shimmed cross-shaft type front suspension but 
> I don't want to confuse the issue at this point.)" He doesn't do it in that 
> article; did he ever, or did anyone else? He does provide a table showing that a 
> 1/32" adjustment will move camber by .15 degrees; 1/16" = .30 degrees; 1/8" = 
> .60 degrees; etc. Would that formula also hold true for inserting/removing 
> shims? If not, why?