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adjusting camber on '84 245 200

I can't speak to the camber adjustment, but the front A-arm bushing job was straightforward. Follow a good manual, but basically unhook the sway bar link and the ball joint, then unbolt the rear bushing mount, then finally the inner A-arm bolts.

I did have a bit of a time unbolting the old rear bushing, so I ended up drilling out the rubber, and then unbolting with the help of a vise. I had a press available to me, so pressing out the old bushing was simple, but the thing which holds the bushing is just sheet metal, so be careful and support your work well. Due to A-arm geometry the front bushings could not be done in the press, but the vise (a big one) worked just as well.

The only real PITA is that you supposedly have to re-mount the A-arm and all attachments and get the car on its wheels before final-torquing the rear bolts. This isn't too bad on the driver's side, but the exhaust downpipe obscures the passenger side, and I thought removing the pipe was too big a project. So I just aligned the bushing & support (rotationally) by eye and torqued it off the car before installing it.






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