87 hatch - Positive camber?

[pwjm]

Is it normal for there to be 2-5 degrees of positive camber on the front wheels in a 4wd hatch? (non lifted)

 

\\>----<// The car looks like that from dead on.

 

 

 

The guy I bought it off of said it's always been like that. They all just came that way... same as a lot of old ford pick ups.

 

Is there a way to adjust it via the leading arms or something? There doesn't seem to be a way to adjust camber on the EA81's and the positive camber it sits with now is stupid looking. It can't be good for the handling of the car either.

Edited November 9, 2009 by pwjm

[GeneralDisorder]

The front struts are adjusted up all the way probably. You will find the adjuster's on the lower spring perch of the strut. They are not supposed to be left "up" for normal driving as it will wear the tires unevenly.

 

EA's do have a TON of camber when turned to full lock though. They characteristically wear the outside edge of the tire's in turn's anyway so having the strut's all the way up is just making it worse.

 

You are otherwise correct though - there are NO adjustment's for camber or caster on the EA series Subaru's. Only toe adjustment. Later in the EJ series the camber is adjustable via the knuckle/strut interface and a cam bolt.

 

GD

Edited November 9, 2009 by GeneralDisorder

[ivantruckman]

you could build 1 inch offset blocks, or try to crank down the strut ajustment,

[oskar_subaru]

all of my EA82´s have looked like this

 

 

never had any problems i can trace to this though