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CDA 455 II

CDA 455 II

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Can I adjust the camber on the Bronco by simply removing the top nut and turning the camber adjustment nut until I get the camber I want?
Or is there more involved?

Here's my upper ball joint/camber adjustment nut:
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CDA 455 II said:
Can I adjust the camber on the Bronco by simply removing the top nut and turning the camber adjustment nut until I get the camber I want?
Or is there more involved?

Here's my upper ball joint/camber adjustment nut:
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Yes you can! That’s a multi position ball joint “cam” for sure. Each of those teeth is a probably 1° of change. The factory ones don’t look like that, they only have one key way to lock into the knuckle. It’s definitely worth trying on your own to see if you can get it where you’re happy with it.
 
The big castlated thing. You gotta get it knocked loose from both the knuckle and the ball joint and turn it in circles. It keys into the knuckle so only get 6 clicks, 5 different positions from where it currently is. If it’s already the most castered it can be it’s going to be a lot of work for nothing. Those things are pretty cheep though and you might be able to find different ones if these can’t net what you want
 
JR4X said:
The big castlated thing. You gotta get it knocked loose from both the knuckle and the ball joint and turn it in circles. It keys into the knuckle so only get 6 clicks, 5 different positions from where it currently is. If it’s already the most castered it can be it’s going to be a lot of work for nothing. Those things are pretty cheep though and you might be able to find different ones if these can’t net what you want
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Yeah; that's what I'm now learning.

The hole dictates the caster while the sleeve sloped surface dictates the camber.
Do I have that correct?
 
Can someone explain how an adjustable camber sleeve works?

Does the hole angle dictate the caster angle?
How does the camber's slope work/do?
Is the said slope a constant/universal slope angle?

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I have a 4.5*~ positive camber angle on each front tire.

How would I correct said camber angle with an adjustable camber sleeve?
 
Familiarize yourself with an “eccentric”. The knuckle has a huge gaping hole in the top. The sleeve is an eccentric that locates a small hole a measurable amount in relation to the space it fits within the big hole. That eccentric also has to keep the top ball joint in good alignment with the lower ball joint so it’s not in a bind and wearing things out unnecessarily.

The one you posted looks like the most amount of offset you can put a small hole inside of a big hole. Imagine the same thing but with the small hole perfectly centered inside the bigger hole. If it’s perfectly centered no matter where you spin it the little hole will remain centered inside the big hole. The one you pictured can tip your tires out \ / or in / \ or give you caster / or take caster away \ and in the right situation it can give you the desirable amount of both. A good alignment shop will have a plethora of those in 1/2° increments.
 
The reason the top is tapered looking is so that the ball joint nut is on a flat plane in relation to the stud. I marked up your picture to show how the stud would pass through the sleeve (red) and the intersect where the nut would square up with the top of the sleeve. My markings are kinda poor but the orientation of the pic doesn’t work well
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CDA 455 II said:
I have a 4.5*~ positive camber angle on each front tire.

How would I correct said camber angle with an adjustable camber sleeve?
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Umm....sum ting Wong

4.5* is a lot. Enough that it would be very visible looking at the front end and would wear the hell out of the tires. How are you getting this measurement? Solid axle or TTB?

No matter what, a camber sleeve is only good for 1* or maybeeee 1.5*.

Something else is wrong.
 
CDA 455 II said:
I have a 4.5*~ positive camber angle on each front tire.

How would I correct said camber angle with an adjustable camber sleeve?
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Did you happen to reverse into the parking space before taking this measurement? Seems silly but TTB tends to have a jacking effect when you reverse throwing off the measurements if you don't settle it before hand.
 
Toreadorranger said:
Did you happen to reverse into the parking space before taking this measurement? Seems silly but TTB tends to have a jacking effect when you reverse throwing off the measurements if you don't settle it before hand.
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Excellent points.:beer:

That's what I'm noticing as I drive the Bronco around town.
I've seen the front tires/wheels with near 0* camber when I've parked at store parking lots.
 
CDA 455 II said:
Excellent points.:beer:

That's what I'm noticing as I drive the Bronco around town.
I've seen the front tires/wheels with near 0* camber when I've parked at store parking lots.
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if you tires are wearing even, you should be fine. if you want to get a more precise idea of where you are at, pay the $40 to have the local alignment shop put it on the machine for a read out.

i aligned mine in my garage with a digital angle finder on the hub body. it was within a 1* and i ran with it. find some old magazines (i used two sheets of AL with grease in between them for a 'friction' free surface) to put the front tires on with the tcase in neutral, bounce the front end a few times and see where you end up.
 
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