Ok, my front suspension has been driving me nuts for the past month now, here's the deal...

I put Ground Control coilovers in the front and rear about a month ago... I was forced to use stock front shock assemblies, I don't know if this is playing a role... Anyway, My camber was REALLY bad, but I had the ingalls kit that adjusts between 1.25 degrees and 3 degrees of negative camber... I adjusted them fully (had to do a little cutting so the upper arm wouldn't hit on the inside) but I STILL had quite the bit of adjusting to do... so I raised the front up on both sides, now I am back to stock hieght and STILL have negative camber, and my NEW tires 3 weeks ago are practically nonexistant...

Am I missing something???

ps My alignment is off a bit, but nobody will touch it with the camber being so bad...

 

is your toe setting correct?

have you had an alignment done?

is the camber visible or are you assuming that you have negative camber since your tires are getting eaten up?

 

Like the man said, get an alignment done, the toe will kill your tires faster than any camber, I have the same set up as you do. I only got the ingalls up to 1degree, I still have 2.5 degrees of negative, but I kind of like the handling, 1.5 would be ideal in my opinion, but GET AN ALIGnMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


[Modified by Frog, 12:08 PM 9/21/2002]

 

my "toe" setting... help me out here...

alignment will be done on monday...

 

we can sais that the toe of a car is when the tire look like this / \ or like this \ / your left tire is oriented at right a bit and your right tire are oriented a bit at the left so your tire rool no problem but friction with the road is way more present withs that bad toe problem

 

wow... ok...

well my wheels DO look like this /---\

how do I adjust this setting??? is it something they will do when the alignment gets done??? I thought the camber kits are supposed to correct this problem...

please continue to help me out here

 

thecamber kit wil help that problem. the nicer setups replace the entire upper arm, and then its adjustable in length, which in turn adjusts camber on the rear. but it can only do so much until the amr is so long it would actually hit the frame..,.

 

ok your toe setting is when you look at your wheels from the top down and they point / \ (inward) or \ / (outward). this will eat tires alive in a very quick manner if its not in spec.

the thing i don't understand is you put the car back to stock height and you still have a camber problem? something sounds installed wrong to me...

 

Is there a way for me to adjust this problem myself?

 

nice explanation. finally can picture it in my head.