Adjusting RUCAs?

I got some; I'm gonna wing it. Got mad camber issues. Any tips?

what kind of rucas? what I did was adjusted mine to the same length as the stock rucas, which made it driveable until i got an allignment..

Circuit Sports. I need to replace my tie rods too, but my engine is leaking oil and it's a mess under there so I don't wanna put my shiny new ones on yet til I pull that motor and clean it up. Thus I don't wanna waste an alignment on it yet.

They are adjusted to stock which is about 3-4* neg camber.

yeah thats what I had too. I must have adjusted it wrong because i ended up with 2-3 neg camber on each side.. whatever.

as long as your dust boots for your tie rods arent ripped then you can throw em on whenever, oil wont get into the boot. make sure you have a torch though for taking oem tie rods off.

uhh. oil + torch.. yeah wait until theres no oil leaking on second thought dude...lol

If your replacing the ends, just use a pickle fork separator and a 5 pound sledge. You can rent one from autozone for free. I bought one, they are cheap and handy.

Have an alignment shop adjust your rucas, I agree... set them to stock length. If you don't have rear toe arms your rear toe will be wacked, and thats no fun to drive.

simon wrote:yeah thats what I had too. I must have adjusted it wrong because i ended up with 2-3 neg camber on each side.. whatever.

as long as your dust boots for your tie rods arent ripped then you can throw em on whenever, oil wont get into the boot. make sure you have a torch though for taking oem tie rods off.

i didnt need a torch to take off my oem tierods.....but one of them got right angled thanks to a pole so maybe that that helped

240sxguy wrote:If your replacing the ends, just use a pickle fork separator and a 5 pound sledge. You can rent one from autozone for free. I bought one, they are cheap and handy.

Have an alignment shop adjust your rucas, I agree... set them to stock length. If you don't have rear toe arms your rear toe will be wacked, and thats no fun to drive.

Just pound the side of the spindle where the tie rod end goes in, it'll pop right out otherwise use a fork..RUCA's will have no effect on your toe they adust the wheel in totally different ways and have no effect on each other

You guys are losing concentration and missing the point here. lol. I just wanna adjust my RUCAs

Just eye ball it, or go to a shop..I eye balled it and mine are fine..I have more negative camber but idc i get tires for free

eS 13_maJiK wrote:

Just pound the side of the spindle where the tie rod end goes in, it'll pop right out otherwise use a fork..RUCA's will have no effect on your toe they adust the wheel in totally different ways and have no effect on each other

If you slam your car, and fix the camber with a ruca your toe will off. If the factory adjustment is enough to get it back in spec great, it wasn't in my car. You can't change the length of one arm without changing other specs. Having driven my car with the rear toe adjusted improperly, I can tell you its scary. Rear end tries to snap around and skitters around in the rain.

i would just take it somewhere... that way ur car isnt like oh lets go left oh wait lets go right oh yeah... lol. thats my imitation of a car

http://www.importspecialists.ca/240sx-suspension-dissected.php

Read this so you know exactly what your dealing with.

Liz, I agree. You will chew tires like crazy if you just haphazardly set them

Well, that told me that the RUCA is used for adjusting camber. Good thing cause I had no idea. lol. I know you're just trying to help.

I did adjust it; a little goes a long way! I got positive camber now. I'll work it out soon. I don't really drive the car and when I do it goes relatively straight. I don't care if the tires get beat up, they are old and dryrotted.

240sxguy wrote:

eS 13_maJiK wrote:

Just pound the side of the spindle where the tie rod end goes in, it'll pop right out otherwise use a fork..RUCA's will have no effect on your toe they adust the wheel in totally different ways and have no effect on each other

If you slam your car, and fix the camber with a ruca your toe will off. If the factory adjustment is enough to get it back in spec great, it wasn't in my car. You can't change the length of one arm without changing other specs. Having driven my car with the rear toe adjusted improperly, I can tell you its scary. Rear end tries to snap around and skitters around in the rain.

Can you please explain to me your reasoning the only thing they have in common is that they both cause tire wear, because when you lower your car the wheels will move in like so
that is what we call camber,

Toe on the other hand moves the wheel PERPENDICULAR to what camber does like so


Lowering a vehicle does not cause your toe to be effected unless your mess with the toe arms.

BUT. . if you shorten your RUCAs too much you will def get toe. .
the oem toe arms arent adjustable. .so in making the RUCA smaller the toe arm pulls itself up and in. . .causing crazy toe ..

just measure the stock arm .. and know if u want closer to 0 camber make it longer than the stock length. .
and set both ruca's to the same length. .
dont eyeball it. . cuz driving in the rain turns out to be a real pain. .

or fuck it. . go get an alignment

Thanks Roski.

Its definitely apparent in the photo I pictured above what happens.

Evan

Sry I should have specified what i meant..Roski is right, it all depends on your suspension type, If you have all stock arms and you lower your car and the arms are porportional toe won't be affected.. but yes if you adjust your RUCA's your wheel will move at a angle to cause toe

eS 13_maJiK wrote:Sry I should have specified what i meant..Roski is right, it all depends on your suspension type, If you have all stock arms and you lower your car and the arms are porportional toe won't be affected.. but yes if you adjust your RUCA's your wheel will move at a angle to cause toe

You ask me for a diagram, then act like you knew this all along? Whatever man.

240sxguy wrote:

eS 13_maJiK wrote:Sry I should have specified what i meant..Roski is right, it all depends on your suspension type, If you have all stock arms and you lower your car and the arms are porportional toe won't be affected.. but yes if you adjust your RUCA's your wheel will move at a angle to cause toe

You ask me for a diagram, then act like you knew this all along? Whatever man.

My car was aligned perfect with spring/strut combo. Second i slammed my car on coils i had crazy toe problems. Which is why when i sold my coils.. i needed another alignment yet again

eS 13_maJiK wrote:Sry I should have specified what i meant..Roski is right, it all depends on your suspension type, If you have all stock arms and you lower your car and the arms are porportional toe won't be affected.. but yes if you adjust your RUCA's your wheel will move at a angle to cause toe

Toe will be affected when you lower a car with stock control arms.