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Old 12-30-08, 03:34 PM
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Factory adjutments for Camber and Caster?

I am currently waiting on my struts/springs to arrive and when they do im gonna install them, then bring them to my job to get the car aligned. Problem is, in the Sears auto computer, it says "manufacter does not provide camber or caster adjustments" but in the factory manual it clearly says to adjust 2 different bolts on the lower control arms for the front, and for the rear it says to adjust camber by turning the cam bolt on the "I" arm.

Should I print this out and bring it with me?
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Originally Posted by Ernesto13B
I am currently waiting on my struts/springs to arrive and when they do im gonna install them, then bring them to my job to get the car aligned. Problem is, in the Sears auto computer, it says "manufacter does not provide camber or caster adjustments" but in the factory manual it clearly says to adjust 2 different bolts on the lower control arms for the front, and for the rear it says to adjust camber by turning the cam bolt on the "I" arm.

Should I print this out and bring it with me?
Sure, why not? I just recently did my alignment, and yes the 3rd gen has factory adjustable everything.
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Take it to someplace besides Sears if they don't know what they are doing.
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Originally Posted by ptrhahn
Take it to someplace besides Sears if they don't know what they are doing.
this is good advice, a good alighment shop is worth finding.
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In a former life, I did alignments at sears. Our's had all the specs for FDs, but their machine may not. Take them what specs you want and they should be able to do it.
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I am pretty sure Sears has the specs for an Rx-7, the specs/updates goes by manufacture and not by individual models.

"manufacter does not provide camber or caster adjustments"
On the Hunter alignment machine at work, this only shows up when you go under the illustrations section. The one that shows you where the adjustments are and how to adjust it.

If you dont know how to adjust camber and caster on a car you should get someone else to do it.
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Well I got everything done now, I got the Tokico Illumina's and Eibach's installed at sears and aligned for about $155 (sale price+discount) I guess the sears computers here in california are more up to date compared to florida, because when the car was aligned, he finished in about 30 min, and the caster, camber and toe were all adjusted and now everything is in spec for probably the first time in several years
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