Took the 01 GC, with 90,000 miles, to a local garage for an alignment and there was a small problem correcting the camber reading. The mechanic recommended that I eventually might want to consider install an offset ball joint permitting a more correct adjustment of the camber.
The quote I got was $500 for the job.
Anyone here have experience with the offset ball joint or had one installed?
Larry
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Looked at it. I thought there was a TSB on that as well. For the most part, it's a Jeep, a few /16 one way or the other isn't gonna make it a Ferrari. :)
Double check the dealership and build book to make sure the spec is correct, i had an issue with th 93 where the spec from the alignment shop was not the same as the recommended.
Here are specs they gave me in the form of a colored chart with the before and after. The bottom specs are the after.
LF
camber -02 degrees caster 5.9 degrees toe .10 degrees
RF
camber -0.8 degrees caster 5.9 degrees toe 0.09 degrees
At 90,000 I am 10,000 into my third set of tires. Guess I can wait and see how these tires hold up but I already have a little visibly excessive wear on the RF tire when the tire had only had 5,000 miles on it. I moved that one to the rear.
as you can see the "problem" is with the RF camber. Does that look like a problem?
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Sure that's not a bad balljoint? Those numbers sure don't look right.
I thought he was suggesting replacing the ball joint but with an offset ball joint rather than a standard jeep ball joint.
He wrote a note on the spec print out:
"May need offset ball joint to fix camber on right front. But vehicle is pulling right so did not want to increase camber on RF. Will make pull worse."
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