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Old Jun 30, 2012 | 03:50 PM
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Default Broke the camber arm

This morning I headed out early to pick up some things and put a little 100 in the tank from the local Sunoco. The last turn off the main road entering the mall it happened. I was behind a big *** vehicle and fell hard into a hole of infinite depth at 5 mph. Immediately I knew something broke. I limped into the parking lot and parked as soon as I could. The pictures tell the story. At first I thought something was left loose and fell off . Then I crawled under the car and saw the broken Speedy Benz camber arm. After a chat with the wife (she wanted me to call a tow truck) she came to pick me up. We went home and I loaded the car with my tools and the stock camber arms. I had a few adventures with the connecting hardware and had to pack up and find a bolt and nut but it's together again. Other than the camber arm and the shock hat which suffered greatly, no other damage is apparent. Upon inspection of the camber arm it seems to have broken where it would contact the sway bar from time to time. The pictures show the sighs of being beaten on. I've done gymnastics to solve the contact in the past and I'm giving up and going back to the stock arms with a Kmac kit. Well, that's what I'm thinking at the moment. The best part of all this is I confirmed that I can get it apart and together in 15 minutes ...... with the correct nuts and bolts. Mall security looked at me a few times but decided I was just a poor ba$tard with a broken car. I'm thanking my lucky stars that the arm didn't break at 140 mph in the half mile.

Les
 
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