Camber fun...anyone?

[GXO]

I got the new rig, loving it...

however...the camber is looking a little odd. The bearings seem tight (lifted it and did the ol 12 and 6 wiggle). so I am a bit confused. The camber appears to be quite off...if it was bearing wear or anything like that it would probably not be that bad.

It has Slee control arms (looks like adjustable? did you make adjustable Christo?) that could be the cause...heading out to take a deeper dive once I am done with the puter.

 

[Doc]

I'm not sure how you'd screw up camber on a solid axle truck.. Big jumps?

Are you tiliting in or out at the top?

 

[FJBen]

Do you mean caster??? The arms wouldn't have any effect on camber.

 

[concretejungle]

hmmmm....i know adjusting the castor will evenutally affect the camber on a solid axle...but shouldn't be too visibly far off. Maybe the axle housing itself is bowed or bent a tad. Just a thought.

 

[landtank]

if it is camber I'd look at the spindle real close.

 

[CandyPants]

I just took it apart a bit and the bearings were a touch loose on the PS. I tightened that all back to stock.

it is tilting in at the top...seems a bit better since the bearing tightening...I am thinking spindle problems or it could be that the PO wheeled it hard enough to bend something...that would suck

oh, I am at my sister's house and I guess this is her account...hehe

 

[GXO]

well, it seems that the tires are 80% of the problem from what I can tell. They are unbalanced to an extreme and seem to have lost large chunks of rubber

Gotta love 35s with insufficient air pressure. Anyway, I have MTRs going on day after tomorrow and will then dig in to the spindle if the death wobble is not better post tires.

My last 80 also had this type of wobble until I got new tires...must be a trend!

 

[landtank]

My last 80 also had this type of wobble

Where did this come from? You said CAMBER problem.

 

[GXO]

I know. I visually IDed the camber problem...the bearings seems to have improved it, which then exposed the beat up swamper problem

 

[FJBen]

Yeah, it's impossible to isolate/troubleshoot and vibration/rattle issues when your tires say "swamper" on the side!

 

[GXO]

indeed...and these suckers have some good chunks removed from wheeling from the PO.

Ben, sorry I missed your call. Your VM was garbled so I didn't get your number.