Zcat7
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Thought I'd share some info regarding rear wheel camber as I know a few people have posted about this in the past.
When I first got my bus it had a 2 spline drop on the rear with a corresponding drop on the front, obviously. There was also a corresponding amount of negative camber on the rear wheels, which served at lest to keep the tyre walls inside the wheel arches!
I took the bus back up a spline (2 inches?) a year or so back but found that I had still had some pretty nasty camber, especially on the offside wheel. This camber was so bad in fact that on a trip to Scotland a couple of weeks back a motorist stopped me at the lights and asked if "the rear wheels are supposed to be like that as something looks broken."
This was something I'd tried to remedy at one point by rotating the diagonal trailing arms (as per the Bentley manual) but to no avail. So this weekend I fitted new bushes to the diagonal arms, where they meet the torsion tube and hey presto, problem solved! I had in fact rotated the arms a bit again after fitting the new bushes but found that this ended up giving me a visible degree of positive camber so quite a major change degree wise
Interestingly, the old bushes I pressed out looked perfectly fine and showed no visible sign of deformation or wear yet it was obviously there. The job only took around 30 mins for the first side and 20 mins for the second (as I had everything set up and was practised) but I also have a windy gun and 6 ton press, which is a Major plus.
Anyway, I thought it might help!
When I first got my bus it had a 2 spline drop on the rear with a corresponding drop on the front, obviously. There was also a corresponding amount of negative camber on the rear wheels, which served at lest to keep the tyre walls inside the wheel arches!
I took the bus back up a spline (2 inches?) a year or so back but found that I had still had some pretty nasty camber, especially on the offside wheel. This camber was so bad in fact that on a trip to Scotland a couple of weeks back a motorist stopped me at the lights and asked if "the rear wheels are supposed to be like that as something looks broken."
This was something I'd tried to remedy at one point by rotating the diagonal trailing arms (as per the Bentley manual) but to no avail. So this weekend I fitted new bushes to the diagonal arms, where they meet the torsion tube and hey presto, problem solved! I had in fact rotated the arms a bit again after fitting the new bushes but found that this ended up giving me a visible degree of positive camber so quite a major change degree wise
Interestingly, the old bushes I pressed out looked perfectly fine and showed no visible sign of deformation or wear yet it was obviously there. The job only took around 30 mins for the first side and 20 mins for the second (as I had everything set up and was practised) but I also have a windy gun and 6 ton press, which is a Major plus.
Anyway, I thought it might help!
