Alignment and control arm

#1

How much change in alignment settings have you seen when you’ve changed your control arms in the past?

I’ll be changing my control arms this winter and was wondering what the past experience has been.

#2

Shouldn’t see any unless your are changing to offset control arms bushings, but I assume you already have those.

#3

hmm… I thought there will be enough manufacturing tolerance differences to see some changes especially in the camber setting.

#4

csrow wrote:

I don’t think I’d want to bet on the tolerances being good enough to forgo an alignment. Fortunately, on the front wheels this is something you can do yourself with a couple of toe boards, a tape measure, and a camber gauge.

#5

Camber - Gained -0.2 degrees on the left and -0.1 degrees on the right (yay!). Caster was the same.

Steering wheel was slight off center.

#6

Did the camber really change or did the goober at the alignment place sneeze?

gOOD TO SEE THAT A CHANGE IN CONTROL ARMS HAS NO EFFECT.

Regards, Robert Patton

#7

Patton wrote:

[quote]Did the camber really change or did the goober at the alignment place sneeze?

gOOD TO SEE THAT A CHANGE IN CONTROL ARMS HAS NO EFFECT.

Regards, Robert Patton[/quote]

Well, the goober was Jeff at GTE.

The difference could be attributed to a measurement error although the past two year measurements (2007 and 2008) have been the same.