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Rear tire camber after Disc Swap
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Sat Sep 18, 2010 12:39 amby kingjmack
Iv'e got a 92 coupe and just did a rear disc swap using parts from a 94 hatch and now I have a wierd problem. My passenger side tire has a bit more positive camber than the driver side. I took the wheels back off and did not see any adjustment for camber. Any ideas as to why my tire is doing this?
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Sat Sep 18, 2010 1:29 amby asianrob
maybe one of the trailing arms is bent? or bad bushing? or maybe need alignment?
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Sat Sep 18, 2010 3:00 amby kingjmack
I have this bad feeling in my stomach that one of the arms is bent. Bushings look fine, and toe is not bad. I might have a solution. Maybe. I know for a fact that the old trailing arms (with drum brakes) are good. Can I just swap out the trailing arms? Meaning take all the hardware of the drum trailing arms, and put the disc hardware on them?
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Sat Sep 18, 2010 5:40 amby asianrob
you can do that. did you check to make sure your rear stock camber arms arnt bent?
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Sat Sep 18, 2010 11:01 amby kingjmack
Ill check that today here in a while.
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Sat Sep 18, 2010 7:00 pmby kingjmack
asianrob wrote:you can do that. did you check to make sure your rear stock camber arms arnt bent?
Just remembered that I didn't change those. I'm in the process of switching out the actual trailing arm itself. I'll report back later on the results.
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Sat Sep 18, 2010 9:26 pmby asianrob
kingjmack wrote:asianrob wrote:you can do that. did you check to make sure your rear stock camber arms arnt bent?
Just remembered that I didn't change those. I'm in the process of switching out the actual trailing arm itself. I'll report back later on the results.
let us know the results
id first check to see if the camber arm got bent that would be easier to change vs the trailing arm.
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Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:43 amby kingjmack
Well, It's not as bad as I thought. The BIG bushing on the passenger trailing arm was bad and it had enough play to allow the wheel to have too much positive camber, so the arm wasn't bent after all.
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Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:46 amby kingjmack
asianrob wrote:maybe one of the trailing arms is bent? or bad bushing? or maybe need alignment?
Bad bushing was indeed the cause.
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Sun Sep 19, 2010 6:52 amby asianrob
kingjmack wrote:asianrob wrote:maybe one of the trailing arms is bent? or bad bushing? or maybe need alignment?
Bad bushing was indeed the cause.
ah yea? if i where you id replace both at the same time