Re: Installing Rear Camber arms
Originally Posted by downwardspiral
"People who criticize fall under two types, those that can and those that can't do something constructive. I ignore the latter".
"I never bothered much about alignment issues so I have no knowledge of it really."
What's your solution?
Hardness is resistance to penetration, yield strength is the amount of stress a material can take before permanent deformation occurs. I would rather break a sway bar mount which I can weld back on than snap an upper control arm. My current ones are hexaganol, the new ones will be round and will have more clearance.
If you are getting at making an adjustable arm that is curved, it will defeat the whole purpose of having it adjustable, it will need to be removed to change its length, and at that point might as well be fixed.
Excuse my ignorance but I thought steel was harder than aluminum, my mistake I guess.
I was not talking of tensile strength.
Well, the way I see it is that if we had left and right hand threads on the arm as the adjustable straight ones do, without removing it but just loosening the nuts would allow you to swing the curved arm through 360 degrees and effectively change the length by two pitches of the thread. If that was too much then one end would be removed and one end turned 180, 360 or 540 degrees as required. Almost too simple.
Before I forget, infinite adjustment can be made on one end using a stud with nuts either side of a bent rod with a boss on the end. Imagine a 'C' clamp with a through hole rather than a thread.
Obviously an adjustable one is better than a solid one. Once the correct length is found a solid one could be made.
Last edited by onehundred80; Jan 20, 2012 at 07:29 PM.