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RE: Negative/Positive Camber

To: mark holbrook <rolling_rock_12@yahoo.com>,
Subject: RE: Negative/Positive Camber
From: Atwell Haines <carbuff@nac.net>
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 19:30:12 -0400
Hey all,

With a new spring, the negative camber on a Spit is 1 degree, enough to 
notice. With two passengerts, the specified negative camber is 3 degrees. 
This from the alignment specs in the Bentley (factory) manual.

After the spring gets old (about three months I'm told <g>) you get even 
more negative camber. No one yet has mentioned the air-lift shocks 
available through JC Whitney, but these can be fitted to reduce the 
sag.  Some owners have gone so far as to fit two air valves so that they 
can compensate for the weight of the driver only!

A nice article is on the VTR Maintenance pages http://www.vtr.org/maintain/

A reminder, when ordering, you must ask for rear air-shocks for a 65 
Corvette, or you will be rebuffed by the Customer Service flunkies.

Keep it on the level,

Atwell Haines (gaining 10 lbs more every year)
'79 Spitfire (sagging 1/4" more every year)
Succasunna, NJ USA

At 02:11 PM 06/05/00 -0700, mark holbrook wrote:

>The camber problem suggested is completly normal.


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