[85Drover]

Hey fellas,

I have a 95 LWB Vitara with the 3" Calmini kit fitted. I had some issues with camber/toe issues with the IFS, and I fitted camber pins etc to resolve the issue, and worked to a certain extent. The camber is maxed out and still, the the front tyres camber in with only 215/75r15s fitted.

I didn't fit the Calmini kit, the bloke I bought it off did. Is it possible that there is something he was supposed to do when installing the kit that he missed, or whatever? like redrilling the lower A-arm mounts?

Any help would be appreciated as i'm looking at fitting 235/75r15 muddies and may come up as a future problem.

Cheers, Ryan

[atari4x4]

by camber in do you mean positive or negative camber?

[Gwagensteve]

It's common. Narrow rims with limited offset will make the problem worse because calmini designed the system to work with the leverage of a wide, offset rim which will improve things.

Steve

[85Drover]

Negative camber, and i'm running 15x7" rims with f100 offset which is -13 I think? Thanks fellas.

[atari4x4]

negative camber is what you want.

[stocker]

Negatory Camber and some Bigger tyres will be the key

i had the same prob with my bf 215/75's.

a set of 31's soughted that out quick smart

[85Drover]

So there is supposed to be slight negative camber? I'll take a pic of the front of the car tomorrow to show you, to see if it's too much negative.

Thanks again.

[85Drover]

Cheers stocker. Should be getting some GT radial Adventuro M/Ts in 235/75r15s very soon. Hopefully that'll be enough to sort it out.

Cheers.

[royce]

if you have too much negative (tops of tyres leaning in towards the engine) turn the little tabs on the camber pins around, AKA read the instructions

[Philbilly]

85Drover wrote:

Cheers stocker. Should be getting some GT radial Adventuro M/Ts in 235/75r15s very soon. Hopefully that'll be enough to sort it out.

Cheers.

Hi mate, don't know anything about neg camber, but I have a set of GT Radials but in the Severo pattern (same size you're thinking) and I have to say they're a great tyre on and off road. Mine make no noise on tar, and I only know I running mud tyres when I drove super slow on bitumen as you can feel each knob tapping the road. Offroad they're great fun, plough the turf and slop like a tractor......

PS- They're on a lwb vitara with 50 mm spring lift, only scrub on the rears when going too hard.

Anyway, you should like the tyres and I hope they sort out the camber issues for ya.

Cheers,

Phil