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Camber adjustment after lift help asap

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by midnight » Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:43 am

I am at the alignment shop and they are telling me there is zero adjustment for camber.

Is this true cause I searched trailvoy and found it did. Just wanting my ortb guys to back it up.
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by Zero » Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:45 am

That is bull shit! Get your money back and go somewhere else. I have had 2 alignments, and never heard that. And never had a problem aligning me vehicle.
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by Gordinho80 » Sat Feb 20, 2010 1:46 pm

Agreed... they are full of it. Camber can be adjusted. You may not end up totally within spec with a lift, but there is room for adjustment. Caster is a big thing with these vehicles, as most shops don't know what needs to be done to adjust. In order to adjust caster, they need to loosen the lower control arm mount and move that.

For reference, here is the print out from when I had my alignment done after full lift and tires...

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by Zero » Sat Feb 20, 2010 4:11 pm

I think until someone makes us a new upper control arm that has the correct angle we will all be slightly off. But its nothing bad. keep ur tires at the proper psi, and rotate them often.

Once I get a compressor hooked up at my house, Ill be rotating tires on my own.
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by The Roadie » Sat Feb 20, 2010 7:08 pm

Camber and caster can both be adjusted by loosening the three bolts holding the lower control arm mount in. Not a lot of adjustment there, but to say there's NO WAY to adjust it means their training or manuals are full of fail.
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by middlegriff1 » Mon Dec 13, 2010 8:42 pm

The three bolts work like a champ, fixed my camber issues when i slammed mine... thanks to roadie
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by bigezzyk » Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:00 pm

who did you take it to do the alignment and yes there is an adjustment the 3 bolt in the lower control arm and they should be-able to set camber at 0 degrees i did it to mine and im lifted but if they dont know what they are doing they cant do it :lol:
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