FR Strut/ camber adjustment

[ydrogs at gmail.com (Gordy Stedman)]

I smell what your cookin.  Although in theory the bolt should be in the same
position as when it came out to align the strut housing to the hub arm back
in the same position.  This is where I have been getting off track with worn
hardware.  Damn Poor Richards!  He must have worked at an alignment shop :)

On 7/23/07, Karl Krupke <kkrup62@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ...it's not the location [as per rotation] of the bolts that's important,
> it's the fit of the strut assembly bracket onto the hub carrier. The
> eccentric bolt is just there for leverage to adjust the angle back and
> forth
> to set camber, and as Gordy says they're often hogged out or beat up.
> Don't
> use bolt position as a reference for alignment.
>    Hmmm... if you were to look down on the strut/ hub carrier joint from
> Above (all say halleluyah!)... uh, the strut bracket is like a U shape
> with
> the open end towards the wheel. The mounting for the hub carrier slides
> into
> the U, and the two bolts cross the U, one above the other.
>    Ok, so scribe your mark ON the metal surface of the hub carrier piece,
> using the outer edge of the strut U bracket as a guide, from top to
> bottom.
> Cut your thin shiny scratch as close to that edge as you can get, and use
> it
> as reference when you reinstall. I like to scribe top to bottom 'cuz you
> can
> also double-check by seeing that your scratch is evenly parallel to the
> bracket when you're done.
>    That's what I've been doing; seems to work.
>
> Karl


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Gordy
MK1 x 5