[6pack] Alignment Sanity Check

[Tomislav Marincic]

Thanks to all who replied.



I spent a busy day under my car



I removed all 8 shims from the lower wishbones in front, per Kevin Andrews
suggestion. This should give me = degree less negative camber in front,
which would put me in spec. (By the way, is the wishbone bracket to frame
attachment torque really just 20-25 ft-lbs? It seemed awfully low, compared
to the rear brackets.)



I took one shim out of the right outboard trailing arm bracket and put it in
front of the left outboard bracket. That should reduce or eliminate my right
toe-out and reduce my left toe-in.



I turned all the trailing arm bracket adjusters counterclockwise, working my
way from left to right, by 1,4,10,and 7 turns. In theory, this should add
3/4 of a degree of camber to the rear, and lower the right side of the car.



Unfortunately, I took the car out for a drive, and after the suspension
settled, the right rear was = HIGHER than before. Ill have to review the
instructions that come with the Goodparts brackets, because I seem to have
screwed it up.



Anyway, Im back to the alignment rack tomorrow, so well see what happened.



Cheers, Tom



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