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Okay, on from the stance thread,.. I need spacers to get my wheels out in the arches where they belong.. I'm going to jack the car up, offer up the wheel and drop a plumb line down from the arch,.. when the lip of the wheel matches up with the plumb line is where I want my wheel to be.... how would I work out what size spacer I need... keep in mind that I can't just measure the difference in location between the lip and the plumb line before and after lining them up due to the fact that the wheel hits the spring before sitting properly, so isn't straight when I start.
Any ideas?
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madmart
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has the car got studs or bolts securing the wheel? if its got studs you can use washers to pack it out then measure the washers depth
HTH or makes sense
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easy measure the wheel from outer lip to inner lip and subtract the backspace... done
also remember that as the lower arm is more horizontal it will put the wheel out more so jack up car on the bottem arm at the wheel end before you measure this will simulate the car at rest rather than at full droop...! oh ur
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Last Edit: Apr 1, 2007 18:03:20 GMT by B-8-D
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Why do you need to jack the car up to do the measuring?
Can't you just do the plumbline with the car on the ground and measure back to the face of the wheel - then you'll have the right 'thickness' for the spacer, surely?
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Rob
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yup - thirded . . .
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Fourthed for Pogs method.  |
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Last Edit: Apr 1, 2007 19:13:39 GMT by Odin
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Makes sense to me. How much further out would you like them than they are now? That's how thick your spacer should be.
Don't forget that if you fancy the negative camber look you can always get the spacers made up with the outside face at an angle.*
*unless you wanted to drive it, that is. ;D
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I would find a piece of metal that was around the thickness that you think your spacer should be. Stick it between the hub and the wheel (you may need to drill a hole or two) and mount the wheel.
What car are we talking BTW? Are your studs going to be long enough?
Charlie
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To the people that say I should just mount the wheel and then measure, you clearly didn't read my post : keep in mind that I can't just measure the difference in location between the lip and the plumb line before and after lining them up due to the fact that the wheel hits the spring before sitting properly, so isn't straight when I start. The wheel is too wide to fit in there at the moment, so needs spacers anyway,.. I should be able to use the washer method Charlie,.. its on my B310, studs should be long enough, Reece runs his with spacers, I'll have to check to make sure I've definitely got enough room to run spacers as wide as I think I'll need to on the front,... the rear doesn't need spacers,.. the wheels sit plumb perfect. |
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Hasn't Hotwire already ruled out pogs method, I understood his description to mean that the wheel didn't sit flat on the hub because it fouled the spring so he could not just measure from where the wheel was to where he wanted it to be.
If this is the case the washers idea is probably the way to go, or the random bits of metal between the studs/bolts
edit: Looks like i was beaten to that^
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Ahh, that stands to reason after a proper read. I thought it was a bit too obvious, but figured we couldn't all have read it wrong. ;D I'd make up some sort of 'faux' spacer. |
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Tech : Working out spacers.BenzBoy
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Last time I was messing about with spacers and wheels, I made some mock spacers out of MDF in various thicknesses. Worked a treat. |
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Last time I was messing about with spacers and wheels, I made some mock spacers out of MDF in various thicknesses. Worked a treat. Did you then make proper ones out of ply?   |
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Last time I was messing about with spacers and wheels, I made some mock spacers out of MDF in various thicknesses. Worked a treat. Did you then make proper ones out of ply? Nah, oak. I don't mess about! ;D |
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Hmm. I obviously misinterpreted. I assumed you meant that the wheel caught the spring in the 'jacked up' position, but not in the 'on the ground position' (having played that game before myself). So apols. Maybe make one up as a 'rough guess', but be quite generous with the metal... you can always machine it back. Once you get to wheel nirvana, stop, measure and make some more like that. |
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