hey guys! currently driving my 68 highboy with a 79 high pinion king pin axle up front. i have bad positive camber, wearing out the outsides of the tires badly. the axle was rebuilt before i bought it, so im unsure of whats goin on with it. what are some common fixes for this problem? im looking for answers in a bunch of places but coming up empty. please steer me in the right direction!

 

Saying it's rebuilt, versus actualy rebuilt is two different things. The only ways I can see the camber being off would be pinion angle way wrong, king pin bushings worn badly, or a badly bent axle tubes. I'd bet your king pins were never rebuilt.

 

You can get these in variety of camber degree correction rock auto carries them ..

Camber alignment shim



Also Moog makes this

 

just curious if the camber has actually been measured to confirm? too much toe-in will wear the outside of the tires also.

 

My 79 F150 4x4 Dana 44 suffers from the same positive camber issue, even with new ball joints. I found shims are made to correct this, they are tapered and fit between the knuckle and the spindle. A Google image search for "Dana 60 camber shims" will give you and idea. Seems to be more options for the 44 than the 60 however.

 

Yeap, check this first!

 

Thanks for the info, I have since found the moog and a few other kingpin camber kits. I know the pinion is good, and those spindle shims can get hairy and give you stub shaft fitment problems.

 

I have used the Moog K992 adjusters. It seemed like every time I looked at the truck, they had loosened themselves up and I had a bunch of negative camber and toe.

They were torqued to spec but still had problems.

My opinion is the only way I would run them is to re-torque at every oil change. That -might- be often enough.

I ended up using another brand that uses a positive pin index hole but I forget the brand name.

So far, so good.