Friend of mine installed some camber arms tonight, and the camber was actually WORSE than before install. It also made his toe point in really bad. Is this normal? Does it need to be adjusted by an alignment shop after install or can he just eyeball everything?

When elongating the arms, does that induce more negative camber or more positive camber?

 

You need to take it to a shop and have it aligned

 

there is no way in hell you can eyeball the camber and toe on this car and think it would run correctly. it is a very complex system and MUST be
computer aligned.

 

When you elongate the arm it creates more negative camber. Get it computer aligned.

 

and screws up your toe as well. this is why this car's hard to align.

 

Do you think there is anyway the camber arms are to blame? or does it just need to be worked on my an alignment tech?

 

We installed mine this weekend and what we did was set the length to the current length of the stock arm. Then let the alignment tech get it to where it needs to be.

 

moog- probably just needs adjusting on an alignment rack.

my aligment was f- too when i installed my Stillen rods...then just took her
in and got an alignment.

 

I couldnt agree more, it HAS to be done by a shop. I recently did springs, struts, camber/tractions arms and started with the arms at the same length as the oem ones, but then decided to adjust it a little myself since I was to be traveling from Oklahoma to Missouri before getting it aligned, so that the springs could settle. Bad idea, I totally ruined the (2) 275/35/19 Toyo T1R's I had. I'll show some pics after I get my car back home.

 

update....friend took it to an alignment shop, they installed the arms and aligned it...works fine.

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