Made a mistake ....didn't research enough

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Drove car this afternoon, out to Geneseo, IL, to see Eddie Munster from the TV show. I missed him, to long jacking around with ride height for the stock torsion bars, camber and toe in. The car does ride softer in front with the stock bars, my opinion. It settled on the trip, was hitting the bump stops on some of our bad roads. Will go after it again tomorrow. Did notice one odd thing, that bullfrog came and went with adjusting the camber caster, hummmmm. I don't have gauges, just spit balling it with a level and tape measure. Didn't have time to mess with the struts.

I’m sure it did ride softer with factory bars. Not sure what bars you used, but the biggest small block factory V8 bars were only 110 lb/in vs a 1” bar which would be ~200 lb/in. That is not to say that the ride should be “stiff” with a 200 lb/in wheel rate, it shouldn’t be. It’s just REALLY soft with a 110 lb/in rate.

So, caster and camber adjustment changing the noise eliminates some things. Strut rods, lower control arm bushings, shocks, etc shouldn’t be effected by any camber or caster adjustments at all. Assuming that the ride height wasn’t changed anyway.

But changing the caster/camber would of course require the UCA bolts to be loosened and re-tightened, which could change the loading on the UCA bushings. It might also change the area of the upper and lower ball joint the suspension is using the most. It can also change the toe in, and the angles on the tie rod ends. That could also change the area being used on the tie rod ends.

It can also change the clearance to the body and suspension parts, so if something was contacting before changing the caster/camber might create enough clearance it might not rub.

Of course, if the ride height was changed at the same time it would bring back in the rest of the suspension parts as a possibility, since you’d be changing the range that all those other parts would be running in too.