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camber

PostPosted: May 2nd, 2010, 9:02 am
by TJer
does any one no if thay make a after market kit so you can adj. your camber on a tj ore am i up a river

Re: camber

PostPosted: May 2nd, 2010, 11:41 am
by casaintsfan
Moog make adjustable ball joints, did you ask firestone of they know how? Isn't that where you get the free alignments?

Re: camber

PostPosted: May 2nd, 2010, 11:50 am
by casaintsfan
Have you checked to see if anything was bent?

Here's some info
[url]http://www.ilovejeeps.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14473[/url]

Re: camber

PostPosted: May 2nd, 2010, 3:07 pm
by Bert338
I have 4 wheel parts putting some offset ball joints in my JK to take care of my camber problem.

Re: camber

PostPosted: May 2nd, 2010, 5:15 pm
by Desert Dog
Your Jeep doesn't have a camber adjustment. Bad camber usually means you have another problem (bad ball joints, wheel bearings, or bent axle tubes). Are you sure you are having a camber problem and not a caster problem after your 6" lift? Lift up the front of your jeep so you can actually measure for bad camber.

If you confirm that your camber is bad, lift the front axle and grab the top and bottom of the front wheels and wiggle to see if there is play, if so you have bad wheel bearings. If the wheel bearings are fine, then take a straight edge to the axle tubes and check for a bend there. If the axle tubes are fine, then you need to have your ball joints checked and possibly replaced.

Oh, and although I really like the crew at our local 4WP, I have found their alignment machine to be way off. Twice they did an alignment for me and their computer showed everything dead on; but I measured toe and found it to be way off. I'm not the only one with Infectious that has experienced this.

Re: camber

PostPosted: May 2nd, 2010, 6:08 pm
by TJer
[quote="casaintsfan"]Moog make adjustable ball joints, did you ask firestone of they know how? Isn't that where you get the free alignments?[/quote]
he looked in his book and found nothing where do i find moog

Re: camber

PostPosted: May 2nd, 2010, 6:15 pm
by TJer
[quote="desert dog"]Your Jeep doesn't have a camber adjustment. Bad camber usually means you have another problem (bad ball joints, wheel bearings, or bent axle tubes). Are you sure you are having a camber problem and not a caster problem after your 6" lift? Lift up the front of your jeep so you can actually measure for bad camber.

If you confirm that your camber is bad, lift the front axle and grab the top and bottom of the front wheels and wiggle to see if there is play, if so you have bad wheel bearings. If the wheel bearings are fine, then take a straight edge to the axle tubes and check for a bend there. If the axle tubes are fine, then you need to have your ball joints checked and possibly replaced.

Oh, and although I really like the crew at our local 4WP, I have found their alignment machine to be way off. Twice they did an alignment for me and their computer showed everything dead on; but I measured toe and found it to be way off. I'm not the only one with Infectious that has experienced this.[/quote]
ya cris im with you on the alignment thay suck i paid a grip to get mine aligned just to find out it is way out camber and caster is out i thout that is whut i paid them for gess not o ya i check for bad bearings thay are tite