Ron:
Wouldn't kingpin wear cause the appearance of more NEGATIVE camber?
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronald A. Fine" <ronfineesq@earthlink.net>
To: "Greg Lemon" <glemon@neb.rr.com>; <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: Camber
>I have also been looking at a lot of positive camber in my front end and
after eliminating all other possible causes I think I have determined that
there is excessive ware on my kingpins that I never realized was present
even though I had the suspension completely apart several times. I know you
said you had your suspension rebuilt but if you didn't rebuild the kingpins
you might want to check on them.
> Ron
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Greg Lemon <glemon@neb.rr.com>
>>Sent: Apr 5, 2006 12:34 PM
>>To: healeys@autox.team.net
>>Subject: Camber
>>
>>After scratching my head and guessing that the outside wear on my front
tires
>>was due to incorrect toe-in I recently bought new tires and rather than
wear
>>these out wanted to fix the problem.
>>
>>It turns out, based upon my level, that I have some pretty significant
>>positive camber on the fronts, i.e. the top of the fronts stick out
maybe an
>>inch to 1.5" more than the bottoms.
>>
>>Is this a common problem with older Healeys? the front suspension is
recently
>>rebuilt, nothing seems bent and there is no sign of accident damage.
>>
>>My first thought was to fix with offset bushes, I asked Dennis Welch
about how
>>many degrees they could correct for with their offset bushes and just
got a
>>nebulous answer. By eyeballing I don't think there would be enough
adjustment
>>in their bushings to fix my problem.
>>
>>Any thought on a fix short of re-engineering the front suspension?
>>
>>Greg Lemon
>>54 BN1
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