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Old 01-04-2014, 03:04 AM   #24
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So both my camber bolts DID slip after my first install despite torquing everything to the 114 ft-lbs spec in the max negative position. After I unbolted the top bolt and left the bottom bolt alone today, I saw camber had slipped to max positive:





The following pic shows the markings left behind from when the bolt slipped toward positive camber under the car's weight. Yes, it goes toward positive camber when the suspension is loaded and negative camber when unloaded which is why I saw the rotor slide toward negative camber when the car was jacked up in the air. That characteristic might hold true only when the *top bolt is LOOSER than bottom* (as was apparently the case with my camber bolt due to less clamping pressure) and may not necessarily be true when both bolts are equally loose. I replaced the 14mm camber bolt with the 16mm stock bolt shown here positioned for max negative camber.



The bolts didn't slip on the 30 minute drive to the alignment shop this time and front camber came out to -2.0/-1.7.
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