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So....Installed my camber compensator, and and understand how it is supposed to work. However...... Looking at how mine is fitting, it is not making sense. When the car is sitting on its wheels the camber comp has preload....telling me that it wants to unspring and "jack" under a turn. Which is what the thing is supposed to prevent....right? When the car is jacked up ....like in the pic. You can see that when the camber compensator is neutral "unloaded", the camber is already VERY positive. It would make more sense to me if this thing was mounted on top of the tranny, in which it would hold the swing axle up, and the spring action would hold the axle in negative camber.

Please help,
Mike
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So....Installed my camber compensator, and and understand how it is supposed to work. However...... Looking at how mine is fitting, it is not making sense. When the car is sitting on its wheels the camber comp has preload....telling me that it wants to unspring and "jack" under a turn. Which is what the thing is supposed to prevent....right? When the car is jacked up ....like in the pic. You can see that when the camber compensator is neutral "unloaded", the camber is already VERY positive. It would make more sense to me if this thing was mounted on top of the tranny, in which it would hold the swing axle up, and the spring action would hold the axle in negative camber.

Please help,
Mike

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If you look at it from the other side it might makes sense.

In your pic you see the left wheel tucking when the body lifts. Well, from my very basic understanding, I believe that the compensator keeps the right side (in this example) from dropping and thus putting pressure on the left side and not allowing it to tuck.

In a right hand turn it will prevent the right side from dropping, thus preventiung the left side from lifting and tucking.

Of course I could be all wrong....
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