Problems with new Ridetech suspension with 3 degrees of positive camber - Lateral-g Forums

Old66Tiger · #1 05-25-2013, 11:42 AM

I posted in pro-touring but I thought I would post here as well to see if others have had similar issues. My new Ridetech suspension is in and I have 3 degrees of positive camber without any shims. To get back to zero, I will need to put in about 3/4" of shims. The upper arms have about the same dimensions as the stock arms as far as distance from cross shaft to the ball joint stud. The spindle appears to have 3/4" of additional distance from the brake mounting boss to the ball joint stud hole. Anyone else have this or similar problems?

Vince@Meanstreets · #2 05-25-2013, 11:22 PM

Yes, is your engine in and at operating weight? How low is your car sitting?

Old66Tiger · #3 05-26-2013, 08:15 AM

Yup, I was driving the car down the road before I pulled the front end apart and swapped the SpeedTech stuff over for the Ridetech stuff. The Speedtech with factory spindles needed 3/16" shims to get -0.5 degrees of camber at the same ride height. I made up 5/8" of shims out of oak (just to see where the camber would end up and I am still in the positive area. Car is not dragging weeds. About 2" lower than factory at best.

Apparently, these arms just went through a complete re-design. I also now need to grind my inner fenders to allow clearance for these arms.

Blake Foster · #4 05-26-2013, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Old66Tiger

Yup, I was driving the car down the road before I pulled the front end apart and swapped the SpeedTech stuff over for the Ridetech stuff. The Speedtech with factory spindles needed 3/16" shims to get -0.5 degrees of camber at the same ride height. I made up 5/8" of shims out of oak (just to see where the camber would end up and I am still in the positive area. Car is not dragging weeds. About 2" lower than factory at best.

Apparently, these arms just went through a complete re-design. I also now need to grind my inner fenders to allow clearance for these arms.

Now why would you go and do that???

coolwelder62 · #5 05-26-2013, 09:26 AM

Did you get the right part# of a-arms.Give Darren @ridetech acall.I'm sure someone there can figure out what needs to happen to fix the problem.

Old66Tiger · #6 05-26-2013, 01:45 PM

Not sure. I looked at their website and it appears that the pictures listed are for an older design like what was used on the 66 GTO for V8TV. I saw in another post that they were going to setup their test chevelle with the newer design so it will be interesting to see if they ran into the same problem as I did.

**GregWeld** · #7 05-26-2013, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Blake Foster

Now why would you go and do that???

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA good question!!!

**clill** · #8 05-26-2013, 09:45 PM

Have you called Ride Tech ?

Old66Tiger · #9 05-27-2013, 06:27 AM

Holiday weekend...always my luck. I have a show this coming Saturday that I paid for in advance so I am hoping to get this ironed out before then.

Old66Tiger · #10 05-27-2013, 11:57 AM

I stand corrected on one of my prior posts. The Ridetech spindles are measuring only 0.100" greater than the factory spindles from the upper mounting boss to the ball joint hole. The arms measure almost 1/2" longer from the cross shaft to the center of the ball joint than the Speedtech arms. Add these two together and there is the difference.