rear tire camber adjustment??

[Cward]

How do you do it/ can it be done? My new SHO has a pretty serious lean in at the top of the rear tires. I know that one of the lateral arms in the back is bent, I'm probably going to replace it this weekend. Any help apreciatted, I don't want to keep having to replace rear tires!!

 

[Shoaz]

With the stock control arms there is very limited toe/camber adjustment than can be done in the rear. One pair of the arms (I think it's the front pair) has a large hex-shaped ****** that lets you turn an eccentric bushing at the inboard end of the arm. That's all you get for adjustment, and it doesn't have much of an adjustment range and barely affects the camber (it's mostly a toe adjustment).

If you're going to be replacing the arms anyway to fix the bent one, look into getting some GM arms off of a GTP and a sleeve kit from shonutperformance. This will give you fully adjustable camber and toe in the rear. If you really want to spend some money you can get the GTP aftermarket control arms from BRM fabrication (I have these on two SHOs, very nice).

Some of the SHO vendor sites have, IIRC, kits that include the arms and the sleeves together.

 

[pjtoledo]

As the wheels travel up the tops tilt inward a little. If you have rear springs that are letting the rear sag, same thing as the wheel moving up, you automaticly get tilted wheels. You may need to do both springs and control arms to get it perfect.

Perry

 

[fastsho92]

As the wheels travel up the tops tilt inward a little. If you have rear springs that are letting the rear sag, same thing as the wheel moving up, you automaticly get tilted wheels. You may need to do both springs and control arms to get it perfect.

Perry

True that is excatly what happens with lowered cars. When you are lowering a car you are already making the top of the tire sit insward thus giving you neg. camber. That is the problem im having with my lowered car.