Shimming spindle/lower ball joint for more camber?

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1MeanA

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I learned something new today while I was trying to educate myself more on alignment as I have always left this to others. I found this video. It looks like he sets the upper control arms for max caster and then shims the lower ball joint to get his camber:


I thought some discussion might be 'interesting' although I see it has been discussed a little in the past. Is it looked down upon for the street? Failure of the bolts would obviously be catastrophic.

Unfortunately I didn't know about the Moog offset upper control arm bushings when I bought all my parts from PST. My understanding is that the stock design is limited on caster adjustment. I was thinking shimming might be a good way of maintaining caster if I find that I have to move the rear control arm can a lot to dial in the camber (hopefully my understanding of this all isn't flawed). Perhaps it won't be an issue. Its just a thought....maybe a bad one :)
 

I am considering the same thing. I made up some 1/8 shims, and purchased some 2" grade 8 bolts.

Now, I just picked up a set of slip plates, and I used the offset Moog bushings. I was struggling with getting a bit of neg camber and more than 1 degree of pos caster with the Moogs......However, I believe that the jouncing of the suspension after the adjustments was not enough to neutralize things (I didn't roll the car)

I will re-visit the measurements now that I have pro slip plates.

BTW......You should just change out to the offset Moogs. Eeezy peezy.
 
I’ll probably run what I got and see how the handling is. If it’s a problem I can do the Moogs or the shim thing in the winter. I made up a pair of 1 ft square sheet metal plates with grease between them for alignments. I just need something for toe in and camber now. My iPhone angle finder app works well.
 
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