What’s Bent?! Very Positive Camber

[Hallerhan]

Hi Everyone

hopefully someone can help enlighten me with my rear positive camber issue. This car was a complete barn buy, and I did not notice the rear camber issue until it was sitting in my garage.

upon my initial inspection, both rear lower control arms were severely bent. No big deal I thought, until trying to install the new lower control arms. From the pic you can see that the knuckle is too far pushed in, and the new control arm cannot be installed.

this is the same for both sides of the rear wheels. I can’t seem to find what’s broken or bent. My guess would be the hub or the extremely hard to bend rear trailing arm.

any help and insight is greatly appreciated

please excuse the mess in the garage, I’m currently doing all work in a tiny single car garage haha

[Ruley]

Your suspension is completely unloaded. It’s normal to be like that when your car is in the air.

[pawa_k2001]

Use a spring compressor to compress the spring, it is pushing down the trailing arm and folding it underneath since you took off the rear camber arm.

Edit: You can also try loosen the bolt of top control arm at the trailing arm so there is less resistance.

[Hallerhan]

Thank You guys! I completely overlooked the suspension being unloaded

[mrgizmo04]

Full droop 👍