Reply to "Camber/Brace adjustment"

The whole spot-welded body has 'relaxed' back there, allowing the a-arm attach points to move inward at the top, giving negative camber. Sometimes, spot-welds are sheared or were never made. If you add an adjustable brace and simply crank out to restore stock settings, you risk warping the quarter panels, cracking paint and generally screwing things up. To do this 'properly', jack up the rear so both rear tires are off the ground, then add the adjustable brace and crank a "little" preload in. Lower the car down (don't drop it!) and roll it around or drive it a bit. Then repeat the next day after everything sorta settles in with the new brace settings. In this way, you can ease the thing back close to the stock settings (with no shims in the lower arm mounts). But don't expect to wind up with a like-new car- the metal that moves back there, moves quite a bit in 32 years....To my knowlege, Wilkinson is the only Pantera vendor thats taken the trouble to build a replica frame-alignment jig to check, tweek and adjust this sag back to stock. But it ain't cheap nor eassy to fix it this way.