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Negative camber reduction with solid bushings

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Old Jun 23, 2016 | 03:31 PM
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Is there anyone that can comment on removing Camber after moving to monoball/bearing suspension bushings. If I was running 3° previously I am assuming there will be less deflection thus I will need more positive camber by roughly half a degree.
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Old Jun 24, 2016 | 08:23 AM
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I would be surprised if your min/max changed by even a tenth of a degree unless your bushings are totally destroyed.
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Old Jun 24, 2016 | 09:01 AM
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Excellent, I thought that a fair amount of the deflection was the bushing flexing but it must be in the chasis, yaw and tires. I will stick with my original alignment settings.
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Old Jun 24, 2016 | 09:12 AM
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The upper control arm bushings can definitely bind and change your alignment if you aren't torqueing them at ride height. Other than that I doubt they will change your alignment much if you reset all the eccentrics to the same location.
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