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castor reading #2065425
05/01/16 07:16 PM
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Were you all placing your gauges for castor reading whiles aligning the frontend on your coil over frontends? Will the coil spring itself be ok? I don't have a lot of room on the shock body itself to get a good reading..............Thaxs. wave

Re: castor reading [Re: racerx] #2065445
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Castor is usually measured over a 20 degree swing using a magnetic gauge on the wheel hub. A coil over shock angle has no worth. If you have a strut front end, it might be a little difficult since you have a camber angle on the strut also.


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OK.......hmmmm lean something new every day, I always thought it was suppose to be measure off the shock it self this is new to me.....Thaxs thumbs

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Something like this is what you need

http://www.summitracing.com/search/depar...ew=SKU&ar=1


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Originally Posted By sgcuda
Something like this is what you need

http://www.summitracing.com/search/depar...ew=SKU&ar=1

I'll check it out thumbs

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Originally Posted By sgcuda
Castor is usually measured over a 20 degree swing using a magnetic gauge on the wheel hub. A coil over shock angle has no worth. If you have a strut front end, it might be a little difficult since you have a camber angle on the strut also.
Actually, it's measured over a 40 degree swing. 20 degrees on ether side of zero (straight ahead).


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Originally Posted By Crizila
Originally Posted By sgcuda
Castor is usually measured over a 20 degree swing using a magnetic gauge on the wheel hub. A coil over shock angle has no worth. If you have a strut front end, it might be a little difficult since you have a camber angle on the strut also.
Actually, it's measured over a 40 degree swing. 20 degrees on ether side of zero (straight ahead).


This is true, and the digital one that I have from Longacre uses 15 deg sweeps.


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