Friend of mine installed some camber arms tonight, and the camber was actually WORSE than before install. It also made his toe point in really bad. Is this normal? Does it need to be adjusted by an alignment shop after install or can he just eyeball everything?

When elongating the arms, does that induce more negative camber or more positive camber?

 

That sounds right.

You must have it professionaly aligned to fix the camber and toe after they are installed.

 

Is this for the front or rear.?
For the front to decrease negative camber you would lengthen the arm
for the rear to decrease negative camber you would shorten the arm.
Please take it to a professional alignment shop to get the car aligned. It is very dangerous to drive a car that is very out of alignment not only that but if you drive for too long on that you will start having a very bad wear pattern and the tires will most likely not last for tooo long

 

Do you think there is anyway the camber arms are to blame? or does it just need to be worked on my an alignment tech?

 

hey moog. are you talking about the front or rear camber arms.
more than likely for the rear there is still an eccentric bot as well as the adjustable arm and the culprit could just be that it needs alignment. No worries.

 

You should get an alignment unless you want to go through tires really fast. Almost anytime you change suspension by lowering or replacing parts that are adjustable you should have an alignment done. You do not have to have an alignment after changing wheel size.

 

oh sorry, yeah these are rear camber arms that my buddy put on yesterday.

He ended up putting the stock ones back on because he says the camber arms are crap and didn't adjust anything enough.

 

hey moog are you sure he adjusted them correctly because the camber arms do work wonders in the rear of the car

 

yea seriously, you shouldve had it aligned after installing it.

 

man...just talked to him and my buddy re-installed them & took it to an alignment shop...rear camber is back close to spec

wasn't me...it was a buddy of mine. I'm installing mine this weekend.

 

What brand of rear camber arms did he use?

I just installed my second SPC Rear camber/toe kit. I got my rear camber to -1.5 & -1.4 and the toe easily w/in spec. This time the car should chew through the rear tires as badly.

When I took the car in, I had one side (prior to alignment) with as little as -1.2 degrees of negative camber.

I have Hotchkis springs on the car.

BTW, I'm in the DFW area as well.