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760 How do I adjust Camber?

mo5005 said:
How do i adjust the camber on my 88 760T. As of now the passanger side wheel has negaitve camber.
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It is technically non-adjustable but when we want more negative camber for better handling, we knock out one of the strut mount bolts, rotate the strut mount inwards, drill new hole in strut mount for bolt. I think it is the rear bolt, I can go out and check my 940 during lunch.

Anyway ifyou have way too much negative camber on the passenger side I guess you could do the above and rotate the strut mount outwards.
 
MrSteve is right, it's not a pretty way of adjusting. If you're not far off, i'd just leave it. Technically speaking, you should adjust everything to spec, but realistically it probably won't cause any excessive tire wear. (according to the Firestone shop that is)
 
mo5005 said:
MrSteve.... any chance you could take a cellphone pic of the bolt/drilling you did to your 940?
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Yep. Be right back.

Looks like I did the front bolt:

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i think the root cause of the problem was i ran over the curb on the passanger side during a snow storm.... and ever since then it has had a camber.

u think i should just try to bang down the strut housing instead? ( it is slightly higher ever since the accident)
 
mo5005 said:
i think the root cause of the problem was i ran over the curb on the passanger side during a snow storm.... and ever since then it has had a camber.

u think i should just try to bang down the strut housing instead? ( it is slightly higher ever since the accident)
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I may be able to tell you (ball park) how much negative camber you have. With the car on a level surface and the wheels straight ahead, lay a 2 ft long carpenter's level straight up and down against the side of the tire but avoid the bulge at bottom. If you have zero camber the bubble will be centered. If it's not centered, carefully hold the level's lower end against the tire and pull the top end away from the tire. Note how far from the tire you have to pull the level to get the bubble centered.

However, if your camber is off from curb contact your toe-in may also be off resulting in increased tire wear.
 
i had the car aligned and everything is in check.... its just the camber, that is off.... and since its non-adjustable i know y its like that. what do you think about banging the strut housing back down? do you think it is even possible? i was thinking about putting the front end on jackstands then using 2x4 and banging it back down....
 
mo5005 said:
i had the car aligned and everything is in check.... its just the camber, that is off.... and since its non-adjustable i know y its like that. what do you think about banging the strut housing back down? do you think it is even possible? i was thinking about putting the front end on jackstands then using 2x4 and banging it back down....
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Not sure how well that will work. If it was my car, I would jack that corner up, undo the strut mount nuts so the strut drops down into the tower then place wood on tower top, hammer in several places though mainly on the bolt holes. How much that will affect camber, I dunno.

Ben Kaplan has said that the lower end of the strut tube tends to bend when riding race track curbs so you might have a bent strut.
 
I took my 740 to an alignment shop about 4 years ago and they adjusted the camber by "bending". It was a machine that was hooked up to a computer, it clamped on to both wheels and slowly forced them into as close to spec as possible. They didn't get them into spec but both wheels are about equal and slightly negative which is fine with me.
 
fml. i tried to bang back the strut housing.... and it was close to impossible. n.rippe... where can i find a shop that does this bending? also before you went to get the "bending adjustment" how much camber did your vehicle have?
 
I managed to bend the strut itself, right where the hub is by hitting a huge rock during some enthusiastic offroad driving in my old ****mobile ('89 740). Maybe you've done the same thing back when you hit that curb? Everything was back in shape when the "new" strut got mounted.
 
Umm...bending? That sounds absolutely stupid. It's essentially damaging the suspension components to move them. The camber is not adjustable on these cars unless you modify the strut towers or strut mounts. "Bending" the front suspension....well....you could also drive into a curb at 40mph to do that.

From the sound of it, you have a bent strut/strut housing, or maybe a bent control arm. Something is damaged in your front suspension. You need to replace the damaged parts to correct the problem. If your strut tower itelf is bent (the part of the body that the strut assembly mounts to), then that you might be able to fix with a block of wood and a hammer.
 
BoostedSwede said:
Umm...bending? That sounds absolutely stupid. It's essentially damaging the suspension components to move them. The camber is not adjustable on these cars unless you modify the strut towers or strut mounts. "Bending" the front suspension....well....you could also drive into a curb at 40mph to do that.
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I'm just telling you what they did. My front passenger side wheel had too much negative camber, something like -2 degrees. The drivers side was acceptable. They put it on the machine and it fixed it, no problems to this day. The shop was a ratty little place in the heart of Cuban Miami. Probably not the most professional way of doing it but it worked.
 
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