Camber adjustment - good idea or really not good?

[kanurys]

I Just put new 27" AT's on my '87 GL with 4" SJR lift. I noticed the little nubbins on the tread wearing off on the inside road face of the driver's side tire. This reminded me that I measured (roughly with a protractor and long straight-edge) the camber to be off by about 1 degree between left and right front tires. There is also slight little pull to the right.

 

Anyways, I've read a ton of threads with different information regarding adjusting camber on these older vehicles - or rather, making it adjustable - to no avail for a cost effective solution. Then I thought of the question I pose to the forum: would it be prudent to lengthen the strut top mounting holes transversely to give a small amount of camber adjustment?

 

What do you think? It's certainly cheap. One of my concerns is the clearance of the SJR strut spacer clearing the strut tower walls if adjusted for camber. Another concern may be material strength of the strut tower, but I'm not as concerned with that, considering the design. Reinforcement is also possible. I think there are a lot of other things I could break before that.

Edited March 17, 2011 by kanurys
I got a dremel for my birthday!

[Caboobaroo]

The amount you might want to mvoe it or even get it back to stock after lifting it, isn't going to be enough to Dremel out. You'll have to Dremel about an inch or so in order to get it to where the camber won't eat tires.

[kanurys]

Gotchya. That would make sense if I were to adjust by 1 degree. I guess Camber plates are the best option. Any other ideas that might work? Maybe I could modify the lift spacer slightly. Move the captive nuts or something.