Period Decamber Mods shim up stub axle

[John A. Ross]

The thread on this one has been static for a while so I decided today as i found a gauge in the back of the toolbox to check what the camber actually was on DDG with just the de-camber mod and standard size springs / suspension

Was quite surprised I thought it would be a lot worse as it still sits high.

the mod certainly seems to have done its job BUT I fear now when I drop the nose to stop the car looking like a speedboat in water that it will end up looking like a young fellas front end (the busted suspension look only JOKING young peeps !)

[John A. Ross]

Would be nice to try it on a car settled/fixed using the gap gauges in the manual to space the springs and see how many mm/degree the washers do.

I am sure there are some details somewhere.

Ideally as the suspension is lowered the angle would need changed as well.

John

[PMCG]

Reading a book starts on left so easy start point for us , not so good for Chinese evidently!.
Glad to see the "easy mistake to make " comment

It's a bit weird for me, left handed (writing) , used to get wacked on hand at primary school to use my right.
Play guitar right handed, pool right handed (can also play left) but I get annoyed at folks saying near side/drivers side when talking about cars.
I much prefer the old sitting in the drivers seat facing forward so left and right.

[Petowner]

Reading a book starts on left so easy start point for us , not so good for Chinese evidently!.
Glad to see the "easy mistake to make " comment

[PMCG]

Easy mistake to make.

I marked all the suspension parts when I stripped Merc. down. with a centre punch.
A simple dot in the casting areas then a note on a wall that says the ones with the extra dot are Left (nearside UK), I always start at Left for some reason.

[Petowner]

Well l wasn't 100% sure my rebuild of stub axles was correct , no amount of pictures or even looking at set up on car convinced me l'd done it correctly .
Trouble is ,when l take parts apart at work that are, or are nearly identical l always mark parts up with stamp or just centre dot parts so that l don't muddle up the parts from multiple strip downs, Why didn't l do that for my parts? on taking wishbones and stub axle assemblies to work this morning l noticed (ashamed to say it)
that l had assembled off side carrier to near side stub axle and visa versa. Removed top welch washer and stripped them both and corrected my mistake.
Now happier all is correct.
Did the de camber mods while l was at it

[John A. Ross]

Two points . no grease nipples or speedo cable , is this still being restored then?

Bob, yes, not finished yet, only found a NOS speedo cable a month ago. Thats why no dirt yet you would not see that on Boris !

These are also MK 1 stubs, they never had grease nipples and someone drilled those holes and the grease nipples dont thread in correctly, left that as a sproblem for another day

Likely I will just bung them up. I spend ages polishing the carriers to accept the bushes so they were a snug fit wnd no scratches/snagging. Then shimmed it in vertical axis till it was slightkly stiff but smooth on the thrust wasers.

I wont admit to how much time i spend with the stainless washers on the oils tone but I am a fussy sod.

Yes l've done it correctly , really it's so easy to mix up if stripping both , but basically angle of tilt is in same plain as steering column is best way l could describe it..
Thinking now mod the carriers 3\16" as stated in book ,get it out of the way , must make it look better if nothing else , always looks weird at the moment.

That would be way to go

- John

[Petowner]

Two points . no grease nipples or speedo cable , is this still being restored then?
Yes l've done it correctly , really it's so easy to mix up if stripping both , but basically angle of tilt is in same plain as steering column is best way l could describe it..
Thinking now mod the carriers 3\16" as stated in book ,get it out of the way , must make it look better if nothing else , always looks weird at the moment.

Bob

[John A. Ross]

Bob

Took some pics anyway


Offside First







Then Nearside First

[Petowner]

Maybe , l'll look at Pet tomorrow and get back to you if necessary. THANKS
Bob

[John A. Ross]

bob, you want some pics from car in garage ?

[Petowner]

Woken up now , maybe l should look at what's on the car as they haven't been refurbished

[Petowner]

I've looked at so many pictures of stub axles now ,and l'm still no nearer deciding if l'm right, problem with being mirror image to each other , all too easy to rebuild wrong way round , need to have better pic's of correct assembly , but hard to find anything , have looked in book at what you put up but still failing to see it.

Bob

[John A. Ross]

Should be drivers side, usually they lean back pointing teh steering rack attachment up in air Full picture here

https://www.hillmanimp.org/filedata/fetch?id=2124

[Petowner]

Stub axle carrier drawing in 1st post , is that near side or off side , just wondering if l might have made the easy mistake of putting them together wrong way round as they are left and right handed, looking at side of car is the 10 degrees backwards or forwards (is wheel nearer front of car or canted backwards) .
Silly mistake l know but need to clarify as l stripped both sets down together .

Bob