At 05:24 PM 7/13/98 -0400, you wrote:
>OK - Thanks
>
>You say alignment shop need "Castor and Camber in Degrees and Toe in
>Inches".
>
>I've looked at pages 44.5 and 44.3a to see what the units of
>measure are there, and it gives no indication.

Bentley provides Toe/Camber/Castor in degrees/minutes. Minutes appears to
be a subset of degrees, so a certain number of minutes (60???) would equal
1 degree. (If this is true, then "1 degree, 60 minutes" would be the same
as "2 degrees," for example.) But my assumptions here have to be checked.

The shop, however, needs Toe expressed in inches so you have to do a
conversion from degrees/minutes expression to inches expression. The shop
also needs Camber and Castor measurements expressed in hundredths of a
degree instead of using the concept of minutes. Thus, it appears that if
Bentley said "1 degree, 20 minutes" that the alignment shop needs you to
say, "1.33 degrees" instead. This is what you are supposed to be checking
on. Can anybody on the list weigh in with a discussion of these terms, or
if I am having Malcom do it right?

>Please, what are the units of measure on pages 44.5 and 44.3a??
>(minutes and degrees????)
>
>malcolm s
>
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