Bad camber in brumby. \ -- /

tommo · Post by **tommo** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:24 am

Ok, so I lifted my brumby with 2" blocks last weekend and i've just had a wheel allignment.
Camber on all four wheels is at about +2 degrees. Now the guy that did it adjusted the toe from about +1 to -1, which apparently will help the tyres to wear evenly. (For those who don't know, +camber means the tops of the wheels are sticking out, and -toe means the fronts are sticking out.)
Obvious problem being that these two things combined mean it's handling pretty bad compared to how it could be.

I imagine this is a common problem amongst these older subarus with no adjustments except toe.
So does anyone know of a supplier of camber kits or some other way of fixing this like longer control arms or something?

Cheers,
Tommo.

Brumby Boy · Post by **Brumby Boy** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:45 am

Do the L series control arm swap, not sure exactly what it entails but from what i understand is that you just swap the Lseries control arms and use modified xf falcon castor rods, pm matt for details he has just done this swap

stamp_licker · Post by **stamp_licker** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:55 am

strut tops around the wrong way .

92 brumby · Post by **92 brumby** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:01 am

strut top arrows must point to center of car ><

tommo · Post by **tommo** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:40 pm

Thanks Brumby Boy, I'll look into that. Is Matt his name on the forum?
And I'm about 99% sure I put the strut tops on the right way. There were no arrows, (or I couldn't see them through the layer of surface rust), but the holes were offset so the way I put them in would've helped the camber if anything.
Plus the rears have the same camber and there's only one way the rear strut brackets could've gone in.
Thanks anyway.

Brumby Boy · Post by **Brumby Boy** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:19 pm

Yea matt is his name on here to

tommo · Post by **tommo** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:05 am

Just found a company that reckons they have a camber kit for a brumby. K-MAC suspension? they're quoting $130 for a pair, but apparently it still needs welding. Gonna give them a call during the week and find out more about it.

Outback bloke · Post by **Outback bloke** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:27 am

If your back wheels have bad positive camber you need to loosen off the 3 bolts on the trailing arm and adjust the camber. If your front wheels have bad camber on the front I would suggest a few other things before you go to camber pins.

Make sure the strut tops are pointing the correct way. That is there is a front and back on the struts. There is arrows to show which way they go. 4wd points one way, 2wd the other. This is actually on your strut. Not on the lift kit.

Make sure the Strut lift kit is the correct way around.

Make sure your struts aren't wound up.

If all 3 are right then you have issues with the strut lift being wrong and you need to rectify it. Best way is to slot the 2 holes in the top if the strut tower. Elongate them in towards the motor about 3-5mm. Fit your struts sot they are then tight to the inner side.

It is better to do it this way rather than with a camber kit. This way the pivot is at the wheel and minor adjustments will correct the camber. If you use a camber kit that pushes the control arm out to fix camber then your pivot is the top of the strut and you need to move it more to get the correct adjustment. What this does is move your cv race out inside the cup and it will reduce the life of your cv drastically when offroading.