I have a quick question...is it the lower control arm or the upper control arm that controls the camber on a 99 civic? cause i know the tie rod controls toe.

The reason i ask is i am installing new bushings on my lcas and want to know if the nut and bolt where the lca connects to the ball joint has anything to do with camber...cause if the lca controls camber...then it would...but if it is the uca then it doesnt.

Cause i want to have only a minimal difference in my original alignment so that i can wait a lil bit before getting the new alignment (only a lil bit - like a week or too).

And when i took the lcas off, the ball joint area nut....i counted the number of turns it took to get it off...in case it mattered (iono?), but now that i am reinstalling the bolts, i cannot get it to turn all the way back to where it was. it took 11 turns to get off, and i can only get it to go 10.25 turns. i can keep turning it (i am using a 3 or 4 foot breaker bar so it wouldnt be that hard), but i am afraid of over tightening and snapping the bolt or the nut.

So what i am asking...does it matter if i cant get it to go that last three quarter turn? and does the uca or lca control camber?

(i am doing the uca bushings later, in a day or too, will that really mess up my camber??)

Thanks for all your guys' help

 

I got an 88 hatch.
The upper control arms control camber.
I did a knuckle swap and i had a camber issue
to correct camber they were going to install adjustable ball joints in the upper arm.

 

camber is not adjustable.

the only thing that will affect camber is dropping the car, changing ride height, bent suspension components.

you dont need to count the threads our how many times you spin anything. that is only for the tie rod because you dont want to throw off the toe by too much when you replace the tie rod ends.

 

I got everything back installed, dropped the car and the alignment looked fine, went on a drive and it felt ok. So i guess I'll just wait until i get all the remaining bushings on for the new alignment. But should i save the upper control arm bushings for last so if they affect the alignment the most, then the alignment is off for the shortest amount of time?

 

john, just get an alignment when you finish the job. hurry up and finish it