Originally Posted by
Horatio
Straight up - I've been doing this a long time and it had positive camber on the one side.
Nothing was bent - it hadn't been run - it was BNIB from a retailer on black Friday.
It's far less likely to be a machined alloy part issue than a moulded part issue. Even with modern injection moulding techniques and engineering plastics, there are sometimes issues with the way the parts cool that result in poorer tolerance.
A really good example of this are the crappy plastic spurs that they peddle for the Baja 5B. Some of them are out of round or even conical.
Anyway, you don't have to take my word for it - check the pictures on page 1.
It literally arrived like it and just like I said, could only be remedied by bringing the lower pillow ball out, which isn't ideal for obvious reasons..
OK thanks, I'll admit I didn't even know what your issue was because I didn't read the first few posts and then 4 pages later you guys were talking about bad arm molds causing camber out.
My Punisher had horrible positive camber in the rear with the plastic links (and I have them on the Kronos XTR now with the same links), but they're like 2ish degrees rather than what looks like 0.5 or less on yours. The plastic links on mine were almost assuredly a design/manufacturing problem because they're close to 2-3 mm too long. To me, yours looks more like in the range of normal tolerance and I wouldn't even think twice about it. I honestly wasn't even sure which side had camber out until I looked at several pictures. I mean, a tiny bit more sag on one side due to shock springs or droop screws or whatever will cause unequal camber on each side due to camber gain. The arms start sagging/bowing over time as well, which can/will cause this too.
Anyway, glad it's working for you.