camber question.... one for dmonday....? using washers...

[lew666]

lol half a job rob. shouldnt have asked my sister to marry you then you wouldnt have to pay for a wedding and you could buy shims and do it properly. could always blame my sister when your wheels fall off going over a speed bump. 

[Paul86S2]

I like the idea of cheap home solutions for repairing and modifying cars, but you cannot put a price on yours and other peoples safety. Safety must always be the main concern when working on or modifying your car.
I have no problem with you taking risks with your own safety thats just your choice.
If you have a bad accident and someone gets killed or seriously injured your car will be thoroughly checked over. I would imagine your insurance will wriggle out of paying anything to anyone if they find this kind of thing on your car whether it led to the accident or not. I would also imagine that if the accident wasn't your fault and they find this on your car the other insurance company won't pay up either because you are driving an unsafe modified car.
This then leads to you being out of pocket for your car and injuries, liable to prosecution, and liable to be personally sued by the other parties for a serious amount of money. This doesn't take into count the emotional suffering you will cause yourself if it turns out to be your fault or the emotional suffering you will cause to others.
Just because lots of others have done it doesn't make it safe or alright.

Killjoy moment over.

Paul

[robz]

i do agreee mate tbh!
im using this purely as an experiment foir how much i want! i dont like the idea of the stub axle face being away and hanging off the bolts, i will make it aware now my car is sorn, so isnt on the rd
plus i need to replace my caliper bolts etc so is purely an experiment whilst its in bits!!
camber shims will be used on the rd!
(plus ive had a wheel come off - previous o had cross threaded the hub, nice one - and that wasnt pleasent!)

[Dmonday]

At no point did we say to use it on public road, for all i know robz has a trailer queen with no engine? Just giving advice for modifying his show / non-road car, if people want to use this method on the road (like the hundreds of other people that never had an issue) then that's their choice, warning will be added to the OP.

Dan

[forsh]

whats the difference using a washer or a camber shim

ive got a engineer at work who could make them shims easly,hes a genuis with metal,and we got all the tools there,lathes,mills,press's and the rest of the stuff in a metal workshop


does anyone have a picture of some shims and the dimensions etc,i could start banging them out at half the price

[robz]

Washer leaves a non contact surface, whereas a shim won't!!