Camber / Caster adjustment

[Matthew Jeschke]

I need an idea of where my camber and caster adjustment should be for 2001 Z71 w/ mostly stock suspension. I just need something good enough to make it to alignment shop. About finished overhauling front suspension.

Video HERE

Would be AWESOME if anybody had pictures of the 4 upper control arm bolt's adjustment plates. I marked all mine during teardown but forgot to mark which corner they came off of

Thanks!

 

[iamdub]

I need an idea of where my camber and caster adjustment should be for 2001 Z71 w/ mostly stock suspension. I just need something good enough to make it to alignment shop. About finished overhauling front suspension.

Video HERE

Would be AWESOME if anybody had pictures of the 4 upper control arm bolt's adjustment plates. I marked all mine during teardown but forgot to mark which corner they came off of

Thanks!

Just set the camber to as close to 0 as possible, and with the rear of the UCA mounts more inward than the front mounts to ensure you have some positive caster. Set the toe with the front inward about 2mm, starting from square with the rear wheels.

 

[swathdiver]

I have photos of mine but we have different setups to where I think it matters, not sure.

 

[Matthew Jeschke]

I don't have alignment equipment to measure anything. Was curious if somebody has a photo of the UCA mounts as I see they are indexed.

 

[Matthew Jeschke]

Just set the camber to as close to 0 as possible, and with the rear of the UCA mounts more inward than the front mounts to ensure you have some positive caster. Set the toe with the front inward about 2mm, starting from square with the rear wheels.

I have photos of mine but we have different setups to where I think it matters, not sure.

Probably better than nothing. I assume it would still be on positive or negative side despite our differences.

 

[swathdiver]

Well, they are not as good as I thought! Hope you can extrapolate approximate setting from these. I used the little plastic cams to set the new ones in place before it went in for an alignment. The stock settings were supposed to be 3.4 and 3.6 according to the shop manual for mine.

 

[Matthew Jeschke]

@swathdiverawesome thx. Is helpful... I will compare to mine, currently as attach to this post.

I marked them when I removed them but not the corner they were on

Driver rear


Driver front


Passenger front


Passenger rear

 

[iamdub]

I don't have alignment equipment to measure anything. Was curious if somebody has a photo of the UCA mounts as I see they are indexed.

This might get you a half-assed starting point. With how much the frames varied from batch to batch and even truck to truck, the pics might not be of much use. But, it's an intriguing idea and I'd like to add what I have to James' pics:

 

[Matthew Jeschke]

Awesome thanks, I cannot tell which direction that photo is looking on last post... towards front of vehicle or rear?

 

[iamdub]

Awesome thanks, I cannot tell which direction that photo is looking on last post... towards front of vehicle or rear?

That's the driver side looking forward. I was gonna edit it to say that, then saw the steering rack and thought "no need". lol