So I had a camber bolt back out...

[CBT]

...on the front passenger side. A tiny bit each day, the steering wheel was slowly turning to the right. I didn't notice at first.
A couple days before Louisville I took the Marauder out to my fav repair/dealer place and had my new front tires put on and gave the carfixer alignment specs, asked them to do the usual, get it as close as possible. No probs, car drove like a dream to Kentucky and back.
Anyway, when you are used to driving particular roads over and over for 10 plus years, you know exactly how fast you can hang a corner, exactly when to cut the wheel, and, most importantly, where you grab the wheel in said turns. Well, I dove into one particular curve one day and my right hand came under the wheel and hit my left leg. What the....that can't be right....wait a minute...the steering wheel is off, it's pointed at 1 o'clock going straight. by the next day, it was pointing at 2 o' clock. Now when I had the new tires and alignment they asked if I would come back and let them put the Marauder on the new machine they were having installed. I said sure. Well I called last Friday and told them what the deal was and dropped it off around noon Saturday after class. At 3:30 they called, done. The manager that I've known for years said:
"Man, you had a camber bolt that had backed out. The tech that did it a few weeks back is pissed at himself, swears he tightened it."
"How far?"
"More than we'd like to admit. How fast did you get up to on your trip?"
"More than I'd like to admit. Oh well, no harm no foul. How much I owe?"
"You're keys are in the car."
"Nice. Let me buy you lunch next Saturday after class."
"The company buys lunch on Saturdays, so unless you want to pay for 20 people, take this before and after alignment print out and go test drive it."
"Peace!"
All conditions normal on the way home, 10 miles of straight Interstate, faster than I'd like to admit.

Readings, I have no idea how to interpret them, but I'm guessing red is bad.
alignment 001.jpg

[screamn]

I had this problem on the driver side after installing the camber kit from SPC.

The alignment shop, I guess did not torque the camber bolt/nuts to specs, which was 175 ft lbs. as specified in the instruction from SPC. The tech stated that was way too much and might snap.....WTF

The tech finally torqued it to 175 ft lbs. and it's still holding.

Even my mechanic was wondering WTF as he tightened them to specs before the alignment and it held while I was driving to the alignment shop which was about 15 miles away.

But after the alignment, the driver's front tire would move/cant inward after the test drive.

[DOOM]

Glad you caught it in time bro!

[RoyLPita]

Red is out of spec.

[Shaijack]

Casey could it be your strong right arm. You been working out?

[IwantmyMMnow!]

Originally Posted by Shaijack

Casey could it be your strong right arm. You been working out?

Talk about opening Pandora's Box!!!

[justbob]

Wow that was all?:p

Reminds me of the time Firestone installed camber bolts on the struts of my Escort. They didn't torque them, instead they rammed them on with their gun. Couple weeks later the steering rendered the car undrivable. I ended up finding half of the bolt sheared off in my driveway. Scary.

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