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Old Mar 13, 2011 | 05:49 PM
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They look good to me for that kind of money. I paid $350 for mine from MB arts. I don't think you can align just the rear wheels because the rear alignment affects the front.
 
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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 05:35 PM
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I bought the materials to make up my camber arms, but I have a feeling I will have clearance issues (trying it anyway lol). I bought 2 9" long swaged tubes to accept 5/8 rod ends, 2 LH and 2 RH 5/8 QA1 rod ends and 2 LH and 2 RH jam nuts. I will have my freind make up some spacer inserts for the rod ends to match the inside diameter and width of the factory camber arm (thanks for offering to make them, MikeR!). If I have clearance issues, I'll sell them and use 1/2". Without the discount I get through work, the cost of materials is ~$150 ($120 worth of Qa1 rod ends).
 
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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 08:51 PM
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Here are the specs for the spacers using the QA1 rod ends (Part #'s XMR10 and XML10). Keep in mind that the spacers may be a couple thousandths off due to production tolerances; easily fixed with a quick once over with fine sandpaper or by throwing them in the freezer for a little while and slipping them in. If anybody wants to make up their own camber arms MikeR is the man to go to for the spacers. If I have any problems with this stuff I will let you guys know ASAP.



 
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Old Mar 25, 2011 | 08:27 AM
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Thanks, DS! I have my materials too. I went with .750 SST hex rod and 16 mm rod ends (L&R handed). 12 mm wrist bolts, right? That should mean 2 mm walls on the spacers.

Wouldn't 12 mm bore rod ends work W/O bore spacers? Only end to end?
 
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Old Mar 25, 2011 | 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by maxcichon
Thanks, DS! I have my materials too. I went with .750 SST hex rod and 16 mm rod ends (L&R handed). 12 mm wrist bolts, right? That should mean 2 mm walls on the spacers.

Wouldn't 12 mm bore rod ends work W/O bore spacers? Only end to end?
Yeah, thats pretty much what I have but metric. The hex rod I used is 1.1" aluminum. The stock bore on the camber arm should be 12mm (0.472") mine measured 0.475; usually +/- 0.005 is acceptable, so I stuck with it to simplify the dimensions. I would just measure the width of the eye on the rod end; mine was 3/4" exactly so to make up the 1.5" width of the stock arm, each spacer needs to be 3/4", with 3/8" of it sitting inside the rod end. With any rod end, divide the width of the eye by 2, and that is how much of the spacer needs to sit inside the eye. For metric rod ends, assuming the width is 3/4" exactly substitute the 0.625 diameter with 16mm (0.630"). 12mm rod ends should work, but I'd feel safer with 16. I'm trying to figure out an easy way to find the forces the arm would see to figure out how big of a rod end we would actually need. I guess the spring rate x amount of spring travel would give a good ballpark (ex. 400 lb/in x 6 in = 2400 LB force). I don't really feel like drawing a free body diagram and doing strength of materials hw right now though lol. A quick calculation says the 5/8 rod end can withstand ~55,000 lbs of force (alloy steel is rated to 140,000 psi, 5/8 diam = .307 in^2. 140,000 lb/in^2 * .307 in ^2 = ~43000 lb) There are other variables, but that seems good to me lol.
12mm should be good though, especially considering its going to be alloy steel and the 12mm bolts holding it in are probably the weakest link.
 

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