[Shop-talk] Levels

[John Miller]

Steven Trovato wrote:
> Cool.  Did you have them all interconnected so that all the tubes would 
> show the same level?  Sort of a water level octopus?
>
>> I made four of 'em when I was checking the well-bashed '65 Mustang
>> convertible to see how square it was - one across each the front and
>> rear suspension pickup points, then two front-left/right-rear,
>> front-right/left-rear.

No, I wasn't necessarily trying to measure the same heights for 
everything, though I suppose I could have made it work that way. 
Side-to-side I used them to shim the car level on the jackstands, then 
the cross-measurement (combined with a bunch of plumb-bobs and some tape 
on the floor) more or less confirmed that the car was square within the 
(1/16in or so) tolerances of my measuring equipment.

John.