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Old Feb 5, 2005 | 06:00 PM
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I'm looking for a little more negative camber on my '82, and I found some 0.060" shims in the garage. About how much negative camber will I gain be adding one 0.060" shim?

Unfortunately, I don't own one of those handy-dandy angle finders!

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Old Feb 5, 2005 | 08:30 PM
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go get a combo square with the bubble level in it. grind the corners off on 2 opposite ends. it will fit perfectly under your wheel lip and will be fairly accurate to adjust your camber. but if you do this it will affect your other parameters on you front suspension. like caster and mostly the toe setting. the last time i got mine aligned, the shop gladly used my specs for the front and rear. vbp has several different setups for a c-3 alignment. i picked the mildest one, which happened to have the camber i wanted. let a shop dail it in for you.
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