Land vehicles – Wheeled – Running gear
Patent
1983-10-31
1987-08-04
Love, John J.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Running gear
384626, 403 4, 403 98, 411535, D 8354, B62D 1700
Patent
active
046841504
ABSTRACT:
A camber and toe arrangement includes an improved shim device that adjusts both the camber and toe of a motor vehicle wheel. The shim device includes a tapered plate having a plurality of spaced apart bolt-engaging notches around the periphery. The bolt-engaging notches permit the shim device to be inserted between the wheel and the axis without removing the wheel mount and permit the shim device to be rotated so that the position of the taper is adjustable for correction of both toe and camber. The shim is inserted between the axle and the wheel mount by loosening all the bolts and removing two of the bolts, inserting the shim in the desired position and so that the remaining bolts engaging the bolt-engaging notches of the shim, inserting back the two bolts that were removed, and tightening all four bolts.
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Specktor Gerald A.
Specktor John
Hill Mitchell J.
Love John J.
Shim-A-Line, Inc.
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