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[Keith Novak]

Completed my first home setup job per the guide this evening and my FL tire seems closer to the fender than I'd expect. When I stick my hand between the fenders and the tire, all others I can fit my fingers in all the way to the knuckles you'd punch things with. The LF, only up to the second knuckle so I'd guess 3/8 inch closer.

Ride height is within 1/8 of 4 5/8 all around. Cross ended up 50.45%. I was only able to get 2.5 camber on the FL before I whacked my finger with a hammer loosening a bolt and quickly lost patience. Car has my weight in sand backs in the drivers seat.

I did stuff that corner into a hillside once but it has new A-arms (that have done a little bit of offroading since.) Normal to find this?

[davew]

Based on "Ride height is within 1/8 of 4 5/8 all around" You are somewhere between 4.5 and 4.75. So you are on the low side of what I would recomend. But you can not get the correct camber. At that height you should get close to 3.5. I would think that something is bent. You do not state caster readings. If caster is also off on that side, I would definately look for bent parts. Subframe would be very possible.

Dave

[Keith Novak]

Thanks Dave. I was hoping there was an easier answer but since the fender itself didn't even get scratched when it took the earlier damage but the control arms were pretzled, the subframe probably bent too.

For now, I suppose it's better than it was for this weekend and I'll get more practice with setup sorting that out afterwards.

[wheel]

I had the same problem, with the same results. Ended up changing the Xmember and all was well, again. It looked fine, but wasn't.
wheel

[Keith Novak]

It probably also explains why the scales kept telling me to lower that corner, but the clearance and ride height said no.

[William Bonsell]

Keith...
I'm only able to get around 2.5 or so camber on the LF even with a new LCA. Camber can be higher if you are willing to mess with your caster setting. But I just evened out the front camber settings and had caster set to about 5+. I also set my rear camber to 2.5, but not sure it should not have been set higher given the front camber numbers.

[davew]

Keith...
I'm only able to get around 2.5 or so camber on the LF even with a new LCA. Camber can be higher if you are willing to mess with your caster setting. But I just evened out the front camber settings and had caster set to about 5+. I also set my rear camber to 2.5, but not sure it should not have been set higher given the front camber numbers.

If you are short on camber, but can get 5* caster on an NA car, you have something bent.

[Keith Novak]

I'll check the caster after the weekend is over before I swap subframes. I didn't change it much and being my first time doing this myself, after the 100th time crawling under the strings and with my throbbing purple fingertip I decided it "good enough for now".