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Volvo 240 front end camber. How do i adjust it? 200 1981

posted by  Michae1 on  Sat Oct 1 13:25 CST 2005
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On the strut tower sheet metal, the two forward holes are sloted, and the rear hole isn't. You would need to move the strut mount (pivot about the rear stud) til it was all the way in towards the engine. It's pretty easy to move the top mount, just loosen the nuts, pop the plastic cap off the strut mount, and use a drift to hammer against the strut nut to move the mount in.

At stock ride height, you can probably get up to -0.5° if things are straight. I've seen a car get -1.3° on one side and -0.6° on the other when both mounts were pushed all the way in. It can vary. When my car was lowered on Jamex springs, I got -0.7° and -0.8° with the mounts pushed in. With the car lowered a little more on coilovers, and with camber plates replacing the upper mount (basically the same as the strut mount, just designed to move in more for more neg. camber), I got -2.0° and -2.1°.

Check for excessive toe-in once you get the camber set.
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