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Old Jul 21, 2005 | 04:31 PM
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How To Adjust Camber?

I haven't seen or got much info on how to do th is. This weekend I "should" be putting on all the mods on my sig (Needs to be installed). I'm having my uncle help, and we are doing it at the shop he works at. He's never lowered a Camaro and dosen't for sure know how to adj the camber. I've seen somewhere it is done on the bottom a-arm with the two "front" bolts? I would at least like to try and get it close, and then during the week take it to a professional alignment that knows how to do these cars.
Old Dec 23, 2005 | 05:10 PM
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Re: How To Adjust Camber?

Yea, how do you adjust the camber, or is it possible? My dad was just looking under the 94z28 and commented that there doesn't appear to be any way to adjust. I was surprised.
Old Dec 23, 2005 | 08:24 PM
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Re: How To Adjust Camber?

Buy a shop manual, hanes will be fine to start with.

Both camber and caster are adjustable.

One bolt for each, plus special adjusting tool.

The shop manual is a must, lets you check what anyone tells you.

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Old Dec 24, 2005 | 01:19 AM
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Re: How To Adjust Camber?

Special tool is nice to have. But you can use a pinch(prybar) bar to rough it in. Just remember as you gain camber you will have to adjust the toe.
Old Sep 21, 2006 | 04:10 PM
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Re: How To Adjust Camber?

cool, im gonna check this out because i am about to get the eibach sportlines and right now i am taking susp class so i can do a free alignment on my car with the hunter laser alignment machine we have at school
Old Sep 21, 2006 | 10:51 PM
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Re: How To Adjust Camber?

At work I use a come-along to set the camber and caster on 4th gens. To adjust camber you loosen the front bolt of the lower A-arm and hook one side to the a-arm and the other to the engine cross member. For caster you loosen the rear front lca bolt and use the same procedure but put the hook in a different location on the a-arm. (there's a possibility i have that mixed up, it's been a few months since i last did one) Most of the relatively new alignment machines have diagrams that illustrate how to make adjustments that aren't obvious if you can't figure it out still.
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