What should the camber be set too?

Anyone know? i couldn't find a figure in my Haynes manual…

According to a French technical review of the Golf that I recently picked up (dated November 1975) the camber (carrossage) with both wheels pointing straight ahead should be;

0 degrees 30' +- 30'

I guess you've got a tool for measuring camber- if so - I'd love to know what 30' means - 30 minutes (parts of a degree)?


Ali

Yep - 60 minutes in a degree so it's 0 to 1 degree camber

If it's of interest I could try to scan some diagrams from this manual - it seems to have the same diagrams as the haynes manual, plus quite a few more.

This includes exploded diagrams of the automatic transmission on the 1.1 and 1.5 engines (it mentions 1.6 GTI but does not deal with it).

of interest?


Ali

Thanks for the reply Ali, but its all done and tracked now. I set it up by eye with a plumb bob to get it as near as i could. I recently took it to be tracked and the bloke was impressed that i'd managed to get both sides to exactly 1.5deg -ve. Thats a bit more than the book then, but i'm not too fussed, i prefer more -ve than +ve - more stability cornering and just a hint of nervousness in a straight line = fantastic :wink: