easiest way to adjust the cam bolts
Well go ahead and anti-seize yours up then. My alignments don't come back. Your results may vary.Re-alignments are free, if it can be shown that I goofed. I hate doing stuff a second time, and especially for free.
I put a dab of grease on the back face of the cam bolts on my cars so they adjust smoothly during alignment. Not a ton, not enough to squish out when you tighten the cams, just a light film. Never had them move, done it for years. It also keeps any moisture and corrosion from getting behind the cams and making adjustment difficult later. Properly torqued they shouldn’t move at all, and mine haven’t.
Bringing a very old thread back to life but is this true that you have to unload the suspension to adjust the cams?
Im getting ready to do my own alignment but if you have to jack the car up every time you make an adjustment it seems like it going to be a lot harder than I thought..
The cams should also be pretty easy to adjust even with weight on the suspension, the weight of the car is carried on the lower control arms. At rest the upper control arm is just holding the spindle/tire upright, there’s some lateral force that’s only a small component of the force from the weight of the car.
The alignment changes when you articulate the suspension, so it needs to be set and adjusted at ride height. Only the torsion bar adjusters should be adjusted with weight off the suspension.
When a shop aligns your car on an alignment rack, the weight is on the suspension and the car is at it’s normal ride height. I do mine the same way, car sitting on turntables and slide plates, all the weight on the suspension.
This will probably raise some eyebrows but i jack each wheel up under the lower A arm,take the wheel off and lower the A arms on softwood blocks ...each side.
I make all my adjustments, button things up, test drive it and re- check everything.
It just means that the alignment you set and your alignment at ride height are two different things. You’re setting your alignment specs at some random position in the suspension travel. The closer that is to your actual ride height the less of an issue it is, the further from actual ride height the more screwed up your alignment is.