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 stick you see running left to right is your actual wheel. Your mea- surements will be off the leading edge and the trailing edge of the wheel for toe. If you are doing this with the wheels on the car, and you decide you need to make a toe ad- justment on a corner of the car, due to low clearances you often have to 5 raise the car with a jack, reach un-  der the car, make the adjustment, then lower the car. Then, in order for the suspension to settle, you have to roll the car back a few feet, then forward, and then take your mea- surement. If you have long skinny arms and can reach under the car to make the adjustments, then there is no need to roll the car; you can then take your measure- ments. As you might imagine, you will be rolling the car back and forth quite a few times throughout the process. The order I do this is: rear to front, and make my adjustments in this order: Ride height/corner balance (which is an an- other article in itself), caster, camber, and finally toe. <Pic 5 and 6> # PIC Above pictures show camber mea- surement for each rear wheel. I use Longacre’s digital scale with a magnetic adapter, but there are many ways to measure this. I also Note: Anytime you make camber or toe adjustment, they affect each other, i.e, you change camber, the toe setting will change slightly. So, you will have to go back and forth with your measurements to make sure everything stays where you want it. Just make sure you make your major changes in the order I described before. <Pic 7 & 8> Now to check the rear toe setting. It may be hard to see depending on how the print pictures turn out, but I have mea- sured 3 3/8” at the leading edge of the wheel, and 3 3/8” at the trailing edge of the wheel. This shows us that we have 0  have a set of arms for this scale that lays against the edge of the wheels at 3 points for a precise measure- ment as well, which is how you commonly see these gauges set up. From left to right, you can see that our driver rear side is .2 degrees more positive, so I will make a slight adjustment to bump that up to -1.8 degrees of camber. #6 23 Der Sportwagen PIC 


































































































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