hey ive been wondering about camber on these old wagons like my little 84. The camber just seems to be way way positive from what it shoud be. I have never adjusted anything, unless my dad did. and it dosn't have a lift kit on it. but as it sits in my driveway it sits with massive positive cabler compared to my little vw. and when i turn it really goes positive and i know when you turn the car will naturaly do that in our cases. but when its just sitting there it looks wrong. is there any adjustment we can make to fix that or just plan to buy tires when the ouside tred wares out...:-\

look at the bottom of the struts. there should be two nuts, one each side, with bolts going into the bottom spring plate. if your car's struts have this then you can adjust the height something like 1.5 inches. if the spring plate is resting down on the bracket that the nuts are tighted to then you can only raise them. thus giving you more posi camber. if there is a space between the bracket and the bottom spring plate than you can lower the front end a little and loose some of or all the positive camber. if you want to keep the height could you not just put some washers inbetween the frame and the cross member?? anyone? this should help neutralize the camber, but haven't tried this my self. but now that i think of it i am going to try it on my hatch.

peace,

justin

yea i know about the nuts on the struts. my dad i think messed with them but foudn that the camber went way positive so he lowered them back to normal. its just funny that subaru would engeneer it that way...its hard on tires even cornering is hard on the tires. kinda dumb i would say.

The nuts on the struts are to get you a small amount of lift; the price of the extra lift is positive camber.

yea i know about the nuts on the struts. my dad i think messed with them but foudn that the camber went way positive so he lowered them back to normal. its just funny that subaru would engeneer it that way...its hard on tires even cornering is hard on the tires. kinda dumb i would say.

Engineers give positive camber on purpose to reduce tire wear. Any loading on tire (e.g. bump) causes tire to go towards negative camber, so positive camber helps equalize wear. Most people don't corner that much for it to affect wear.

Most people don't corner that much for it to affect wear.

I do, our roads are like 20 grit sandpaper and twisty as hell.

I flogged the outside edges of tires until finallly getting negative camber

I do, our roads are like 20 grit sandpaper and twisty as hell.

I flogged the outside edges of tires until finallly getting negative camber

Hey! I qualified it by saying "most people"... I'm not sure that anybody here falls into that category!

 

My 510 runs about 4 degrees negative camber at its rear, and one day I cranked in about 3 degrees up front (instead of near neutral), took it for a drive in the twisties, and nearly swapped ends in the first good turn. Really surprising how much difference a little negative camber can make.