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How do you measure camber?

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Old 11-23-2006, 12:08 PM
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How do you measure camber?

I have only driven my truck 4K miles and dont' know too much about the history of it, but I noticed that my front tires are bald on the outsides and have much better tread on the insides. The rear tires look even, with much better tread.

I'll bet the tires on there were purchased very used because I found a receipt for tires 25K miles ago and they were for 15" rims. Now it has 16" rims on it with extremely worn BFG Rugged Trails.

I just bought a new set of tires (Nitto Terra Grapplers, 265/75/16 Shipped for $484 - $75 rebate = +$409) and before I have them installed, want to make sure the camber is set correctly. So if the bad wear was already on the tires, I don't care, but I don't want my new tires to wear like that.

Is it possible to actually measure the camber, or test it? I would assume when I take the tires to Discount Tire, and have them installed ($60), they probably just mount the tires on the wheels and balance them, then put them on the truck. I imagine they don't play too much with the toe in, camber, and alignment stuff, right?
Old 11-23-2006, 12:13 PM
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Take it somewhere where they do alignments. If said "discount tire" doesn't do it, have them mounted elsewhere where they do. You pretty much have to have a computer to set those kind of things if you ever want to get it right. I'm sure there's somebody that knows how to do it themselves.....there always is, but I'd never fool with it myself.
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you can ghetto align it with a level strapped to a straight 2x4 up against the tire, but its never gonna be perfect, thats just if u do suspensions work at your home and then wanna drive it to the place to get it aligned, imo not worth your time and struggle, just take it to a place that does 4X4 alignments and youll be fine
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yes go to a place that will do your tires for you and perform an alignment, make sure you tell them to adjust camber if needed, just in case they think they can get away with just setting the toe.
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I just use a speed square lol... Straight nuff for me
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