72 Dart with spool mount K Frame

Sterling said

My buddy has a 72 Dart that was previously wrecked, and needed a k frame. He went to the junkyard and got all the parts, including a spool mount k frame, years ago to repair. Did all the work himself, and drove it a bunch of years. I worked on it at one point and noticed the lever that the torsion bar adjuster sits it was rubbing the subframe. I assumed the spool mount k frame is slightly wider at the lower control mounts, causing this. Fast foward a bunch of years, different engine, and new QA1 control arms. Got the car back together and just had it aligned. The alignment shop could only get - 1 degree camber . Has anyone else ran into this ?

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The torsion bar adjuster hitting the frame probably isn’t a K frame issue. Could just be worn out torsion bars, or it’s possible they were clocked incorrectly on installation. It may also be a cracked LCA pivot pin mount, but I’d suspect worn out bars, ride height and clocking issues first.

-1* camber is fine, unless this is a autoX only car. You typically don’t want to run more than -1* camber on the street as it becomes a tire wearing problem long term. For a regular street driver -.5* is fine.

I’d be more interested in the caster setting anyway. Usually getting positive caster is harder than getting negative camber and effects the driving feel more.

All of the alignment settings are ride height dependent too. Bottom line is I wouldn’t be worried at all about only getting -1* of camber if the caster setting was good and this isn’t a track only car.