Is there a secret way of adjusting skunk2 front camber arms without having the mechanic's boss breathing down on his neck to hurry up??

I go to honda dealership where the alignment tech is my friend and I'd like to get it as quick as possible...

the quickest way we've discovered yet is to loosen the bolts on the top a bit and use rubber mallet to tap it in, but we had to take off the wheel, put it back on, and do rolling compensation every time we adjusted so..... yes it took a while.

 

There is a secret to doing it but I can't say

 

Measure camber. Figure out how much needs adjusted. Jack up car. Take wheel off. Adjust that much. Put wheel back on. Roll back and forth. Check. Done.

 

ah c'mon lol

there was no way to measure the camber with the wheel off. my alignment shop didn't have the "stud adapter"

i'm gonna force their manager to get a set




lol all solved. time did it.

alignment with driver weight in the car and 3/4 fuel,,test drive, readjust, test drive. confirm,
(front and rear aftermarket camber kit)

this honda dealership deserves a race shop medal.

i wonder if they do corner weight balancing too lol

 

You go girl. Guy. Guy with girly hands.....

 

My Allignment guy, uses the Allignment rack (has a brace/hydraulic jack that pops up under the front end) raises it up, adjusts then lowers it down. Checks #'s, then repeats if needed. No taking rims off.

 

That's normal procedure, but definitely won't work with the skunk2 camber kit

 

It almost did, except when we loosened the M6 bolts on the camber plate, it automatically "slid down" along the upper arm pointing the ground and gave me max positive camber lol..


We took the wheel off and played the guessing game for a couple hours to get it right.

the boss was pretty pissed at us holding his $80k toy for several hours paying $70 lol
http://www.hunter.com/alignment/hawkeye_elite/index.cfm



sidenote : I think this was what slpr was saying?
If he had the "lug adapter" (since it's really hard to adjust camber with the wheel on, but it can be done. last time it was done that way)
the machine
1. compensates how much camber at level equals how much camber with car up in the air
2. applies same conversion to lug-adapted front alignment and shows the corrected (as if car was sitting level) values on the screen.
3. keeps monitoring alignment change as we slide the ball joint in and out <- no guessing game involved here