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Colin Wood
Colin Wood Associate Editor
4/14/22 2:21 p.m.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/eJyVo__D3HU

Buying a bumpsteer gauge can easily set you back a few hundred bucks. Don’t want to spend that kind of cash? Why not make one yourself like forum user Asphalt_Gundam did?

All that’s needed is "a Longacre wheel plate, dial indicator and JUNK laying around the garage." In total, the homemade bumpsteer gauge cost only about $125 to assemble.

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twentyover
twentyover GRM+ Memberand Dork
4/16/22 12:48 p.m.

He's got different junk in his garage then I do. Need to figure out how to make a bumpsteer gauge from a broken shovel, old lawn mower, and a tile cutting saw

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