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Author: Subject: reducing camber--which effect on toe?
alfas

posted on 8/9/18 at 05:11 PM Reply With Quote
reducing camber--which effect on toe?

cortina uprights, escort sterring rack on a locost

which effect on toe (tracking) has a reudced camber setting?

do i get more toe-in or toe out (and consecutively need to correct it)

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steve m

posted on 8/9/18 at 05:23 PM Reply With Quote
Negative camber looks like this from the front //----\\
Positive camber is \\-----//

Without adjusting the tracking, the fo0llowing will happen
Putting negative camber in, will make the steering tow out
Positive camber will make the steering toe in





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alfas

posted on 8/9/18 at 06:16 PM Reply With Quote
as my offside is -2 and my nearside is -1, whereas i would favour -0,5 for a roadcar, those are good news.

means if i reduce camber to -0,5 i will get more toe-in, so when setting tracking (back) to zero the track-rod ends would screw out from the steering arms.

the reason all behind this is: at the moment there isnt any visible thread left on the steering arms, track is slightly toe-out and i would prefer it more to zero.

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steve m

posted on 8/9/18 at 07:07 PM Reply With Quote
I have my road only, Locost at around .05 to 1 % neg camber, and 0% toe, all seems fine to me

If there is not enough thread to adjust, you will need some more cut/died in, or slimmer lock nuts?

I have about 15mm spare thread on both sides,





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alfas

posted on 8/9/18 at 07:30 PM Reply With Quote
the lock nuts are already slim ones.... so no chance to improve anything from that direction.

lengthening the thread by cutting aditional turns is not what I prefer. this all can be solved by setting correctly the camber.

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adithorp

posted on 8/9/18 at 07:44 PM Reply With Quote
It depends where your camber adjustment is done. If the adjustment is on the top wishbone then reducing neg' camber will cause more toe-in. If the adjuster is on the bottom wishbone then less neg camber will cause more toe-out.

After a bit of experimenting, I found one turn on the lower ball joint required 1/2turn on the track rod to keep the tracking the same (transit joint and escort rack).

[Edited on 8/9/18 by adithorp]





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alfas

posted on 9/9/18 at 06:54 AM Reply With Quote
yep, its on upper wishbone.


meanwhile i corrected the settings.....camber -0,7 on both sides and traclking set to 0

problem sorted.

[Edited on 9/9/18 by alfas]

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