Hi Steve from QA1 here. Today we have this 2003 Mustang we're gonna be installing our caster camber plates on.
We're gonna be removing the fixed position
strut tower tops, if you will, and
installing our
Caster camber plates. That's gonna allow you to adjust
not only your camber, but also your caster to get your wheel alignment correct.
Our caster camber plates are gonna come with all of the spacers needed. Different strut and
coilover combinations will use slightly different spacers.
But all of those are included. So let's get started. This Mustang has QA1 coilovers on it already
So you'll see the spacer orientation here
We'll always want the beveled spacer on the face of the bearing - both top side and bottom side.
So you'll see we'll
put the caster camber plate on. It'll go like so
it'll give us the amount of space that we need for the angle of the strut.
Then we'll put another beveled spacer on top for the bearing face
followed by
the nut.
So that's how we're gonna do it on this car.
Your car may be different and need different spacers. If you're just running a factory spring and
strut combination you'll not have any of this. Your spacers will look similar to this
The caster camber plate will go on top
Followed by the top beveled spacer for the bearing face and
then the nut.
The first thing you're going to want to do if you're using
coilovers is measure your ride height so that you can return it to where it was.
We're gonna take our wheel and tire off and we're going to compress the suspension
slightly with a jack under the control arm, so that we can remove the top of the strut. The first step up top is
we're going to take the strut nut off. This one here using a 7/16"
wrench as well as a 15/16". Keeping in mind that your factory strut will have a slotted hole
so a different little bit different setup, but same concept.
So now that we've lowered our control arm releasing that spring pressure and taken our strut out,
we're gonna move to the top here. Using a 15 millimeter socket
we're gonna take this factory strut tower out and prepare for our caster camber plate install.
So you'll see on your factory strut tower top, you have two studs and a bolt. This is three connections
whereas the caster camber plates will have four connections here. The caster camber plates will be labeled with
"passenger" and "driver's side" with an arrow facing the front.
What we're gonna do is we're gonna take the top portion of this caster camber plate off
so that we can position this into the car and figure out where we need to drill our fourth hole.
I'm gonna show you how to do that now.
So on your new caster camber plates, you'll have the three factory position holes already drilled into the car.
We're gonna need to drill this one.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to bring this full forward on the three slots with the three existing holes.
I'm going to mark our fourth hole; the complete hole.
Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to move the caster camber plate all the way back on the existing three holes and
then mark our fourth hole again.
As you see your two ovals from this fourth hole. You're going to want to go right in the center. So now that we've got our
hole marked for the fourth hole, we're gonna
lightly punch it, drill a pilot hole, and then final drill it with a 3/8".
So now that we've got our caster camber plate loosely installed,
we're going to go ahead and put our coilover assembly back into the car.
and get the wheel and tire on. We've already finished the other side. We're gonna get back to work
but if you have any questions, give us a call at the tech line or check us out at QA1.net.