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Old 12-21-2015, 10:22 PM
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I have a 98 Cherokee with 4.5" RE superflex kit, 32/11.50 BFG KO's.. just took it to get an alignment and my caster is 1.6 degrees which the manager didn't think was too big of a deal, but on my camber the left was negative 0.2 , and the right side was negative 0.8
Is that considered a huge difference? and what might be causing one side to be way more off than the other side?

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Camber is within spec, don't worry about it. Caster on the other hand is way to low. It needs to be closer to 4-6 degrees in my opinion.
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You don't really have to worry about camber on solid axle vehicles. The only things that can cause camber are bad ball joints or bad wheel bearings or bent axle
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that's what I thought, the guy was saying I need to get offset balljoints, but that doesn't make sense unless my axles bent, and I don't think it is... so should I put in some new wheel bearings and new ball joints and have it rechecked? also I think im wrong about the caster the printout shows from 5.3 to 8.5 and it shows 1.7 above 5.3 so maybe my caster is 7 degrees? I added a pic of the results to my photo album maybe some can take a look that understands it better than I do
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Hard to see your picture. Some of it is cut off
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Your camber is at the edge of spec. You can try to fix it or leave it. I wouldn't worry about it unless it is closer to 1.5 degrees on one side.
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