Does anyone know where i can get the tool to bend the axle on a twin I-beam axle to adjust the camber?

 

The tools used for camber adjustment are not the sort of thing that is useful to a home mechanic. You need measuring tools to follow the camber settings as you bend the axle. A heavy beam and holding devices are strong enough to safely hold against pressures in the 20 ton range. You could be seriously hurt if a mickey mouse system failed while under bending pressures.

 

I asked where i could buy one.............

 

You might check with a local medium-heavy Duty Truck (alignment) shop.

 

yeah go to the local general truck shop and ask them where they got theirs.

 

What year van are you trying to adjust the camber on? The newer ones are adjustable by replacing bushings. '92 forward have this feature. I don't know if it goes back further or not.

I have heard people that thought that all twin i beam front ends required bending to adjust the camber and didn't know if you might be under that impression as well.

Gene

 

Mine is an 89..thanks

 

http://www.beeline-co.com/

 

thanks for the site

 

i remembered the company when i had my alignment done for my 89 e250 a couple of years ago. they had to bend the axle and that was a little scary, especially if they dont know what they are doing. i cant remember if it was both axles or not, but he was very careful to go a little bit at a time. like someone mentioned if your not going to be doing it often i would have an alignment shop do it or maybe a rental place might have one or find a used one somewhere. i know that it can be hard to find a good alignment place (it took me a lot of time and money to figure that out) and i will have to do it again because the last place closed down and their alignment guy was the best, so maybe that is why you are considering doing it yourself.