There has been some talk about the front end camber lately.
The following is an excerpt from Fred Sisson's book "Notes from a Morgan
Garage"? Quoting for the 7th printing version, Sectoin 4,
page 26&27
" Morgans are designed with a generous amount of positive camber in the
front suspension. Look at your car from the front and you will see that the
front wheels seem to slant out at the top. That's "positive" camber. The
camber is built into the front sliding hub. Factory spec is 2 degrees
positive camber.
For increased cornering power, it is standard practice to re-set the
wheels so that they slant in a bit at the top. This is called "decambering
the front end" or setting "negative" camber. Again, according to John
Sheally, street cars can run with around 1/2 degree of negative camber with
no ill effects as far as tire wear is concerned. The negative camber does
really make a difference in the "bite" that the tires take under hard
cornering. More negative camber on a street car than 1/2 degree and you
start inducing tire wear. Race and autocross cars run around 1 1/2 degrees
of negative camber.
Reducing the positive camber will make low-speed steering a bit stiffer.
You will probably notice no difference at speed. To set negative camber,
you need to remove the bottom of the kingpin, out a bit. ......"
Hope this helps some.
John
John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
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