I had a twisted control arm and i had to get my car on a fram machine to straighten it back out i also had to replace my upper moter mount and shim my rear end. the caster to the pasenger side was fixed and after awhile i needed to replace the pasenger side cv joint boot and had to replace my control to do so when i did pasenger side alighnment was 9 degrees out and camber was 2.53 and the caseter was 3.6 degrees off center and i measured it and the tire sits in the correct position in the fender. all input is very apreciated please help.

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what could be throwing my caster out so far?

What is spec? There is no caster adjustment on our cars. If it is out of spec something is bent.

Do you have any ideas of what is bent or could be bent?

caster is the angle of the spindle.

two possibilites, the top of the strut tower is to far back or the engine cradle/mounting points were pulled to far forward

i would have the frame shop check how it was pulled

you could change the caster but it would include bending/redrilling/moving the parts involved (spindle, strut, mounting locations)

I hope it dont cost me much more to keep this car am already into it just under 3k just to fix it

3.6 degrees positive or negative? Also, is it the same (or close) on both sides?




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