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Old Sep 24, 2003 | 02:02 PM
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Adjusting camber on an 89 T2...

How do you do it?
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Old Sep 24, 2003 | 02:13 PM
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Lower your car will automatically put negative camber.

Best way is camber plates for the front and a set of the rear adjustable rods. (I think RB makes it but not technically sure.)
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Old Sep 24, 2003 | 02:17 PM
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front all u have to do is turn the struts..like the four bolts on top..there is a plate under them that adjusts camber.
rear u need either adjustable rods or a adjustable rear sublink..dont buy a rear sublink..your local machine shop can make the stock one adjustable for like 15-20 bucks.

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Old Sep 24, 2003 | 03:11 PM
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You can't adjust camber (officially) if your suspension is stock.


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Old Sep 24, 2003 | 03:19 PM
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yes you can..front you can..back you cant..unless you get custom sublink or camber links like i said above
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Old Sep 24, 2003 | 03:27 PM
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For the front you can't even get -1degree. You'll need camber plates. I just got my car aligned yesterday and I wanted -2 degrees camber in the front, but we could not get it to even -1 degree of camber. RETed, correct me if their is a way other than using camer plates. If not I guess i better order some.
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Old Sep 24, 2003 | 03:44 PM
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The fronts can get almost -2 degrees of camber if you play with the slop in the suspension.&nbsp Loosen all the bolts holding the hub in place and crank the hub over to induce negative camber.&nbsp Once you have the hub cranked over, tighten all the nuts and bolts now.&nbsp You should get very close to -2; I typically see about -1.8 degrees doing this.

No, go ask Mazda about rotating the strut tops - most of their mechanics don't know this "trick".&nbsp They are going to tell you that you can't adjust camber up front either...


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