Newbie advice: Camber adjustment?

[Rsnelson07]

im new to the sho life and need some tips.
Picked up a 94 mtx with 96k Miles has some new parts on her but I can tell the front and rear both have too much camber.

I crawled under it and not sure how to take some out of it?

But just not sure on the next step.

 

[zoomlater]

Welcome! Are the tires wearing unevenly?

Do you know if the car has been lowered with aftermarket springs. Eibach, Intrax, etc. or are they stock?

 

[SHOdded]

Wow, beautiful car! Welcome

 

[Rsnelson07]

There new tires with less than 2000 miles on them so hard to tell on wear patterns yet but just looking at her it looks to me it has to much camber and driven enough it will definitely wear the tires badly.

As far as I know it has orginal or oem ford struts up front since still has motorcraft sticker on them.
Rears have been replaced recently with some part store specials.

Springs look orginal

 

[zoomlater]

Your car looks kinda lowered. If it was, then they wouldn't be able to align it without breaking the welds or using adjustable mounts. Have you thought about just taking it in and getting a four wheel alignment.

There are some posts on this forum where I read some members have tried to align it themselves. Can't seem to find those post though. Here is a recent one on the specs

https://shoforum.com/index.php?threads/alignment-for-95-sho.135444/#post-1473424

Have you checked to see you have any play in your suspension

 

[Signal13]

Your car looks kinda lowered. If it was, then they wouldn't be able to align it without breaking the welds or using adjustable mounts. Have you thought about just taking it in and getting a four wheel alignment.

There are some posts on this forum where I read some members have tried to align it themselves. Can't seem to find those post though. Here is a recent one on the specs

https://shoforum.com/index.php?threads/alignment-for-95-sho.135444/#post-1473424

Have you checked to see you have any play in your suspension

Agreed, take it to a Firestone or somewhere they will warranty the alignment for a year. With all the new tech it’s worth the 90 bucks.


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[rubydist]

another point of information for you: if you have more negative camber than the spec allows, you can account for that with a little more toe-in than the spec allows, and the result will still be tires that wear evenly. obviously this only works within a reasonable range, but I have run SHOs with at least an extra degree of negative camber with no tire wear issues if the toe was adjusted as I described.

 

[TimboSHO]

To get a small bit of adjustment on the front, you can break the spot welds on the strut towers. In the rear, there is no factory camber adjustment. The only way to adjust the rear is to get adjustable rear control arms.

Unless you are planning on driving it a lot of miles, I wouldn't worry too much about it. A 24 year old car with only 96k miles means that the tires are replaced due to age, not because they wear a little faster due to an alignment issue!

 

[rbirtwistle]

To get a small bit of adjustment on the front, you can break the spot welds on the strut towers. In the rear, there is no factory camber adjustment. The only way to adjust the rear is to get adjustable rear control arms.

Unless you are planning on driving it a lot of miles, I wouldn't worry too much about it. A 24 year old car with only 96k miles means that the tires are replaced due to age, not because they wear a little faster due to an alignment issue!

Recheck the SHO specs. I got a 91 with 120k I bought new. In the front the SHO used unique lower control arms that gave in more negative camber than the plain Taurus. This was to improve handling in hard turns and also to correct for excess torque steer on the high HP front drive. I can see it looking at the car sitting. My tires have also had slightly more wear on the inside, i.e. inside at the wear bars but outside maybe 1/32 left. As mentioned above there is no adjustment, so I would leave as is. Check the upper thrust bearing, lower ball joints for wear. One has to rotate often anyway, because with the high power the fronts wear fast and the rears hardly wear at all.

 

[Rsnelson07]

My suspension feels pretty tight as well as tie rods / ball joints.
Might just be my eyes playing tricks and the fact that it might just be that way from the factory. I’m typically a old school hot rod guy so the fwd car is new to me!

Thanks everyone
I’m just going to roll with it for now

 

[itwonder]

I'm late to the party. Our 1992 always had camber problems. We finally got around to installing adjustable rear control arms from Ingalls. Nice parts. Then I bought a small spot weld cutter for my electric drill. Lowering the front struts enough to get the studs out of the way, I carefully cut the spot welds that secure the adjustment plate to the top of the strut tower. Then, I used a burr bit in a die grinder to slot the holes in the strut tower to the outside about 1/4". The hardest part about this entire mod can be finding a competent alignment man, but we happen to have a really good one at our local Ford dealer. I scheduled an early morning appointment so he would be fresh and not rushed. Success! What a great mod. The car handles so much better now, and tire wear is finally normal.