rear camber off

[1990exr]

Hello,

I recently hit a water main cover on a town street, ever since then my passanger side tire in the rear has an abnormal lean in at the top. I visually checked all of my bushing and arms for any bending or broken bushings and nothing. Though it may have been a bent upper control arm but I ruled that out by swapping on in off of another cb any ideas what bends when ya hit something too hard? Also the ride height is the same on both sides of the car and the car doesn't bounce abnormally when hitting bumps which makes me think it's not a shock.

[crazymikey]

Hitting a manhole cover like that might lead me to beleive you bent the trailing arm, pushing the top of your wheel in, while pushing the bottom out, giving you the negative camber.

The trailing arm, which your hub and brake assembly attaches to would be the weakest link in the rear suspension geometry, and take the hardest of impacts from the road. You'd have to hit something at considerable speed to bend a spindle or upper control arm.

Keep in mind if you take the car to an alignment shop, the only factory adjustable spec on these cars is the toe. The camber and caster is already set and is not meant to be adjusted, unless modified.

[Fleetw00d]

Can spacers/washers (within reason) between the upper control arm mount and the body be used to reduce negative camber?

[kapone]

yes...

The best way to determine if something was bent is getting an alignment. with that you can see if one side is drastically different from the other plus it never hurts to have it checked and put back in spec. Also its a lot easier to tell if something is bent when you can see it a lot more clearly with the vehicle fully up in the air...

[crazymikey]

Can spacers/washers (within reason) between the upper control arm mount and the body be used to reduce negative camber?

Yes, that's been an old trick used on these cars for a while now.

I have adjustable rear UCA's on my car that are threaded like a tie rod to adjust my camber.

[Fleetw00d]

None of mine are lowered. Every time I get an alignment and the camber is too negative, I usually find a broken spring.

[crazymikey]

How to you break springs? I've never come across a broken coil before.

The only reason I could see a broken coil throwing your camber off would be if it's sagging that bad, making it as if the suspension is being compressed, throwing off the static geometry.

[Fleetw00d]

Typically, the bottom coil on the front springs breaks; it's call fatigue. You don't see it unless you look for it. The front sags slightly, just enough to push the camber to (or beyond) the low limit. Happened to my 90, the 93 LX sedan, and the 93 EX sedan I bought in March. When I disassembled the EX coupe after the wreck, I found both front springs broken at the bottom coil.

[1990exr]

I was afraid it might be my trailing arm, I just replaced both rear trailing arms got em from honda for 170$ each, only thing I can't find aftermarket too. I'll pick on up over the winter and pop it in the spring. Almost time to retire it anyway dang east coast canada and our salt!