Camber Bolts?

DareDog · June 11, 2016

2005 1500. Have 8k miles on new tires and they were starting to feather. Had a alignment done and they said did best they could and truck needs new camber bolts. How hard is to replace Talked with guy at parts store and he said to have a shop do it. You need really good (big) impact to get bolts out.

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brucelimerick · June 11, 2016

I don't understand why the shop even did an alignment. A waste of money. Any shop I use checks all the suspension points before the alignment and if something is not right they tell me and get authorization to fix what ever part needs repair. You can't do an alignment with 3/16" of slop in a tie rod.

Not sure what you mean by camber bolts but I have a 36" 3/4" drive breaker bar I use for extra tough jobs. I also use a wire brush to clean the threads and penetrating oil. A couple of treatments of that over a day or 2 and most nuts come off. If you want to go faster put some heat to the nut with a propane or MAP gas torch. If all else fails and I'm replacing the bolt anyway I just snap the head off with my breaker bar and drive the bolt out with a punch. You trip to the shop will pay for a big bar. I also got an adapter to 1/2" and use my impact sockets.

I would use another alignment shop. They should have changed out those bolts before they did the alignment.

kstruckcountry · June 11, 2016

They should be pretty easy to swap... They aren't a huge bolt

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DareDog · June 11, 2016

I don't understand why the shop even did an alignment. A waste of money. Any shop I use checks all the suspension points before the alignment and if something is not right they tell me and get authorization to fix what ever part needs repair. You can't do an alignment with 3/16" of slop in a tie rod.

Not sure what you mean by camber bolts but I have a 36" 3/4" drive breaker bar I use for extra tough jobs. I also use a wire brush to clean the threads and penetrating oil. A couple of treatments of that over a day or 2 and most nuts come off. If you want to go faster put some heat to the nut with a propane or MAP gas torch. If all else fails and I'm replacing the bolt anyway I just snap the head off with my breaker bar and drive the bolt out with a punch. You trip to the shop will pay for a big bar. I also got an adapter to 1/2" and use my impact sockets.

I would use another alignment shop. They should have changed out those bolts before they did the alignment.

. They said once I get camber bolts replaced bring it back and they will do another one at no cost.

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