Positive camber on a 72 wagon

[Spades]

well, I lightened my wagon up a bit when I did the engine swap, so now the front has a ton of fender gap, and whats worse, alot of positive camber.

 

I don't see any adjustment for camber on the front suspension...is there a trick I don't know about?

 

I was thinking about seeing if i can find some lowering springs for the front...i hate to spend the $$$ for coil overs since I just put new monroe strut cartriges in...

 

any suggestions of adjusting camber or where to find simple lowering springs?

[Spades]

soooo....anyone know if you can adjust camber some way on these? or perhaps how low the front has to drop to get slight negative camber? since i swapped my naps motor and trans in, I have gained about 1.5" of lift in the front, and my camber is way positive...

 

I was thinking about something I read and taking some 1990 nissan sentra rear springs and cutting a couple coils off to get stiffer springs and get back down to stock height or maybe a inch under stock height.

 

anyone have any suggestions?

[72wagun]

There is no camber adjustment on the stock suspension, but there are a few ways that people do it:

 

-Camber plates

-Ecentric LCA bushings

-Adjustable LCAs

 

Like you said, lowering the front end will also reduce the positive camber. For lowering options check out Mike's strut thread:

 

http://forum.ratsun.net/showthread.php?t=6895

[Spades]

ok, well, at least I wont be looking at it scratching my head trying to figure out a way to adjust it with the stock suspension.

 

rather than hacking up my stock springs, I think i will grab a set of new sentra springs to cut up. I basically want to drop the nose 1" lower than stock ride height to achive slightly negative camber.

 

I should be able to do that without damage to the monroe struts i installed...they arent gas, oil filled, so 1" lower than stock shouldnt create an issue.

 

I am expecting that because the sentra springs have a higher spring rate and are slightly taller than the stock 510 springs, I will prolly have to chop a couple coils off to drop it the couple inches to get it 1" lower than stock height...I will just cut off a little bit at a time untill I am where I want to be.

 

thanks for the reply!