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How do you adjust rear camber?

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Old Dec 6, 2004 | 09:59 PM
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- most of you already know how low I am and my rear camber is HORRIBLE
- how do you adjust the rear camber? which bolts? any pics?
- oh, here is a pic just to show how bad the camber is... I dunno why this picture makes the camber look 28931409328401928 times worse (yea yea, "its the angle")

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Old Dec 6, 2004 | 10:04 PM
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Good Question I would like to know too.
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Old Dec 6, 2004 | 10:06 PM
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What are you at now?
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Old Dec 6, 2004 | 10:07 PM
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Originally Posted by revhi,Dec 6 2004, 11:06 PM
What are you at now?
- who knows.. never had an alignment..
- are there markings of some sort?
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Old Dec 6, 2004 | 10:11 PM
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No you need an aligment rack. I dont think you should try to adjust camber yourself, just get an alignment.
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Old Dec 6, 2004 | 10:15 PM
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It's not worth doing yourself unless you have access to a 4-wheel alignment machine. However, the process is descibed in the Helm manual.
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Old Dec 6, 2004 | 10:18 PM
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Originally Posted by revhi,Dec 6 2004, 11:11 PM
No you need an aligment rack. I dont think you should try to adjust camber yourself, just get an alignment.
- I wanna do it myself if I can... because I know on my IS300 it was possible
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Old Dec 6, 2004 | 10:21 PM
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It will be almost imposible to get both sides the same. Just get the alignment, it will handle better.
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Old Dec 6, 2004 | 10:27 PM
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- i'm going to call alignment shop and ask how much to adjust rear camber ONLY... don't touch front
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