You probably have the wrong front shocks fitted Greg. Or the wrong
wishbones.
>>the top of the fronts stick out maybe an inch to 1.5" more than the
>>bottoms.
Measure the top arm (the shock arm). Assuming the chassis hasn't been
changed - the top arm should be around 216mm - 218 mm centre to centre on a
std car with 1 degree positive camber.
There are other shock arms off other sedans - down to around 198mm. Using
these shorter arms on a Healey can reduce the 1 degree positive camber down
to over 2 degrees negative camber.
I've never researched longer top arms - but I'm sure they exist.
http://www.myaustinhealey.com/austin_healey_technical_articles.html
Best
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Lemon" <glemon@neb.rr.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 5:34 AM
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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