I must have missed torquing my right front camber adjustment bolt.
During a low speed drive, the camber adjustment bolt slid outward and damaged the outer retaining tabs on both sides (front/rear) of the cam bolt.

Right front camber adjustment retaining tab, damaged.

Right front camber adjustment retaining tab, damaged.

I plant to attempt to hammer them back out with a flat punch to get it where I feel more secure driving it.
I will then take it to a body shop that I have used before. The shop should have a competent frame repair specialist that can cut off the damaged tabs and weld on new ones.

Ever seen this kind of damage before?

Any other suggestions for a fix?

 

fairly common damage on these cars now, given the age. Replace your camber bolts and washers regularly, and make sure to torque them down.

I have a damaged one in the rear, likely from an off track excursion.

The fix you suggested is pretty much what my shop is trying to do in bulk - have a machine shop cut a whole bunch of those new plates. Tough finding a place willing to do it right now with all of the supply chain and labor issues.

If you can pry it up and hammer it back in place, that's the easy way to do it. Depending on which side is damaged, you might not have room to hammer it, in which case, you cut it off and weld a new one in place.

 

There was a guy selling braces on eBay to prevent this

one could make one's own brace using sheet metal with a square cutout

you can also make your own tabs. don't need a machine shop.

for street cars, yeah, bang it back into place. Don't crack it.

You can put a bead of weld on the outer edge of the tab to "brace" it too.

 

Thanks for the replies, I don't feel so bad about the repair knowing it is a common issue.

It seems the hardware is becoming harder to find. On eBay sellers are asking $40+ each for the nuts. I did find a dealership's website that had all the hardware in stock and the nuts were only ~$5.

I found the braces on eBay @B serious mentioned. I wish those were a little better quality. I might buy a set, depending on what the body shop tells me.

 

Use a dealer parts site for hardware

bernardiparts.com

hondapartsnow.com

Or a plethora of others . Just do a google search for one of the part numbers.

 

I bought some of those braces and decided against them. The dimensions were too short and would interfere with the range of motion of the camber eccentric no matter how I oriented them. I just replaced the worst ones with tabs from a donor subframe and then laid enough weld down on the outsides that the tabs aren't going to move unless I eat a wall at speed.

If you're just looking to straighten them, an air chisel will slip under and get them back into place without deforming them too much and you can use a hammer and a punch for fine tuning.

 

Just tap them back,will be fine if nut is tight,and spray little paint on

 

tap them back in place, and then put 2 tack welds on the back side of each. problem fixed

 

I had a fab shop rebuild one of the sides and reinforce the rest

Before:


After:

 

Before photo not showing for some reason, I would have loved to have seen it. One more thing to watch out for I guess.

How did the OP determine that these came off during the drive? Was it a popping sound? Or any other sound to watch out for?

Cheers.