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[alpder]

Got utterly sick of jury-rigging bits of wood and string around my car to check toe, especially as my 50yo wheels are bent to blazes forcing me to measure at multiple rotation positions and take an average.

 

To make things a bit easier I 3DP'd some brackets. They hold two 1" ally tubes - with identical widths marked on them to position the strings parallel. Obviously my rear ones aren't going to help anyone because they hang off a bespoke towbar. (Maybe someone with a saloon can design brackets for the rear?) But these front ones should fit any car. Only good for a standard height car. Set-up and usage is pretty obvious. Once readied, the car can be rolled forwards/backwards to quickly take average readings at different wheel rotations.

 

So if it's any use to anyone (and they have a 3D printer) I've dropped the STL here: https://www.printabl...ing-front-clips

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[Ethel]

Nice idea,

 

Using the shell as your datum makes a lot of sense. You could develop it by dropping some extension arms to below the floor as triangulation points for checking it's all true & square. Even without a 3D printer it wouldn't be hard to knock up something similar with some of the shelf ironmongery & pipe clamps.

[Spider]

Great idea !

Thanks for sharing.