Gunson 'Trakrite' wheel track gauge
Cicero
personal experiences?
Tia.
Cic.
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Paul Giverin
<shel...@hellfire.co.uk> writes
>Very basic question - is the Gunson 'Trakrite' gauge any good? Any
>personal experiences?
>
The garage that I buy my tyres from have used them for about 15 years.
They swear by them and I've never had any problems when they have used
it to do the tracking on my cars.
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Tony Bond
"Cicero" <shel...@hellfire.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Very basic question - is the Gunson 'Trakrite' gauge any good? Any
> personal experiences?
I have one, in my opinion they're great. It seems pretty accurate and it's
easy to use as long as you have somewhere totally flat to use it :)
Adrian
happily, sounding much like they were saying:
>> Very basic question - is the Gunson 'Trakrite' gauge any good? Any
>> personal experiences?
> I have one, in my opinion they're great. It seems pretty accurate and
> it's easy to use as long as you have somewhere totally flat to use it :)
Does it do anything you can't easily do with two pieces of straight wood,
a ruler and a biro...?
Tony Bond
"Adrian" <tooma...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Does it do anything you can't easily do with two pieces of straight wood,
> a ruler and a biro...?
Yes, it measures your tracking when the wheels/suspension are loaded up and
the car is moving forwards (albeit slowly).
It's results are also more repeatable than setting it with pieces of wood
and string (at least in my experience, I used to use that method before I
bought the gauge).
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Andy Dingley
wrote:
>Very basic question - is the Gunson 'Trakrite' gauge any good?
No, because these days none of them are any good. I've got a '60s-'70s
Dunlop caliper gauge, but I haven't used it in ages. I always have mine
done on a laser bench (Pro-tyre in Bristol)
It'll set toe-in no problem (caliper or Trakrite). What it won't do
though is to set the toe-in up accurately centred on the chassis. You
can set it all up crabwise and you'll never know.
If you have toe-in to adjust on the rear too, then you've got particular
problems. It's all too easy to set the front up crabbing one way and the
back end crabbing the other. Now if you've fixed tracking at the back
and only the front is crabbed, then you might pick it up by road-testing
(hands off on a flat runway). If each end compensates for the other
though, it's impossible to detect just by driving it - but the handling
is still impaired and you're scrubbing at your tyres.
A Trakrite is the cost of about 4 tracking checks on a laser bench, or
two check-and-adjusts. Unless you're kerbing the thing every week,
that's a lot of mileage.