92NITE4x4
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Hello and thanks for letting me join another new forum.. I recently picked up a bronco nite edition along with scoring a nice procomp suspension 6''. The install went on fine, rough by yourself but finished it up and noticed the driver side tire leaning in a bit. Figured I needed to get to the alignment shop and everything would be fine....
Well, they call me and said my passenger tire (with the stock cam bushing) was fine, but the driver side was out 3* negative. They told me they have up to a 2* cam bushing that would get the tire "close" but not perfect.. I have to be honest, I never seen a cam bushing before so I told them to go ahead and paid too much money for what it is..now that I know what it is I'll never fall for that again..
Anyways, I get it home and the 35'' tire still has a very significant lean to it. Angered by the money spent I pulled in in my shop and took the tire off to access the cam bushing and see what setting it was on from the tire shop and marked it..When I removed the cam bushing and rotated it 180* the top of the knuckle pulled itself inward which is the way the tire needs to be moved in.. So Im looking at this and I put it back the way it was and the top of the knuckle moves outward...which is giving me the tire lean?? WTH!!! Did they install it backwards??? Of course they cant find my factory cam bushing...
So for curiosity I put the tire back on and put the truck back on the ground without the cam bushing installed to see what the knuckle wanted to do along with the ball joint and amazingly the tire comes in, no lean, and the balljoint is standing straight up and in the center of where the cam bushing would be..not angled.
What do I do.. Im running out of money and options to keep dumping into this ttb44..New wheel bearings, new races, new seals, new caliper, new pads, I could have put all this into a straight axle..
Please help...Im not a newbie to 4x4's but I am a newbie to this ttb44 that has fought me since day 1
Well, they call me and said my passenger tire (with the stock cam bushing) was fine, but the driver side was out 3* negative. They told me they have up to a 2* cam bushing that would get the tire "close" but not perfect.. I have to be honest, I never seen a cam bushing before so I told them to go ahead and paid too much money for what it is..now that I know what it is I'll never fall for that again..
Anyways, I get it home and the 35'' tire still has a very significant lean to it. Angered by the money spent I pulled in in my shop and took the tire off to access the cam bushing and see what setting it was on from the tire shop and marked it..When I removed the cam bushing and rotated it 180* the top of the knuckle pulled itself inward which is the way the tire needs to be moved in.. So Im looking at this and I put it back the way it was and the top of the knuckle moves outward...which is giving me the tire lean?? WTH!!! Did they install it backwards??? Of course they cant find my factory cam bushing...
So for curiosity I put the tire back on and put the truck back on the ground without the cam bushing installed to see what the knuckle wanted to do along with the ball joint and amazingly the tire comes in, no lean, and the balljoint is standing straight up and in the center of where the cam bushing would be..not angled.
What do I do.. Im running out of money and options to keep dumping into this ttb44..New wheel bearings, new races, new seals, new caliper, new pads, I could have put all this into a straight axle..
Please help...Im not a newbie to 4x4's but I am a newbie to this ttb44 that has fought me since day 1
