Dang, while it got a couple of things wrong, that's still some pretty impressive answers from a ChatBot given the obscure corner of knowledge we find ourselves in....
Re: Rear camber eccentric bolt
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2026 8:46 am
by spacecad3t
jeyjey wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2026 8:38 am
Dang, while it got a couple of things wrong, that's still some pretty impressive answers from a ChatBot given the obscure corner of knowledge we find ourselves in....
I agree! I have been searching the internet for posts about this and they consistently leave out the need to loosen the two pinch bolts holding the trailing arm to the spring plate. Or, in my specific case, I am adding a rear sway bar and need to swap out the eccentrics, I was worried the spring plate would sag and make it painfully hard to reinsert them.
This youtube video helped the most, but then I was curious if CarBot had an answer.
jeyjey wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2026 8:38 am
Dang, while it got a couple of things wrong, that's still some pretty impressive answers from a ChatBot given the obscure corner of knowledge we find ourselves in....
I agree! I have been searching the internet for posts about this and they consistently leave out the need to loosen the two pinch bolts holding the trailing arm to the spring plate. Or, in my specific case, I am adding a rear sway bar and need to swap out the eccentrics, I was worried the spring plate would sag and make it painfully hard to reinsert them.
This youtube video helped the most, but then I was curious if CarBot had an answer.
Did you get the answer you were after? Eric, the guy who made that video, is a friend and Carpokean if you need human insight. He stripped all that down and made it look like jewelry, so if you have any other questions, I'm sure he'd be all over it....
Re: Rear camber eccentric bolt
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2026 10:42 am
by spacecad3t
@Tom Thanks! I think so... Been trying to gauge how much of a pain swapping the eccentrics will be, and if its something Im doing on the street or saving for a trip up to Maine. I think Im going to do it on the street tho. Erics video was a huge help and yeah, that rear suspension looks beautiful. Jealous.
Re: Rear camber eccentric bolt
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2026 10:47 am
by Tom
What are you trying to accomplish? I recall undoing those bolts to get the Torque Tube out, and again to lower the rear for the KW coilovers... Taking them apart was the easy part....
Re: Rear camber eccentric bolt
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2026 11:02 am
by spacecad3t
Tom wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2026 10:47 am
What are you trying to accomplish? I recall undoing those bolts to get the Torque Tube out, and again to lower the rear for the KW coilovers... Taking them apart was the easy part....
Im installing the doubled sided eccentrics for rear droplinks/swaybar. Since I'll be using a jack/jack stands, hoping to avoid a situation where the spring plate shifts and I need to monkey around with the suspension to get the hole to align... but it sounds like if I leave the pinch bolts tight (trailing arm-spring plate), it should be fine to just mark the setting and remove the eccentric.
Tom wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2026 10:47 am
What are you trying to accomplish? I recall undoing those bolts to get the Torque Tube out, and again to lower the rear for the KW coilovers... Taking them apart was the easy part....
Im installing the doubled sided eccentrics for rear droplinks/swaybar. Since I'll be using a jack/jack stands, hoping to avoid a situation where the spring plate shifts and I need to monkey around with the suspension to get the hole to align... but it sounds like if I leave the pinch bolts tight (trailing arm-spring plate), it should be fine to just mark the setting and remove the eccentric.
I think that's right. If memory serves I had to move mine and used a bottle jack to get it all lined up again -- but it's been a while now...
Tom wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2026 10:47 am
What are you trying to accomplish? I recall undoing those bolts to get the Torque Tube out, and again to lower the rear for the KW coilovers... Taking them apart was the easy part....
Im installing the doubled sided eccentrics for rear droplinks/swaybar. Since I'll be using a jack/jack stands, hoping to avoid a situation where the spring plate shifts and I need to monkey around with the suspension to get the hole to align... but it sounds like if I leave the pinch bolts tight (trailing arm-spring plate), it should be fine to just mark the setting and remove the eccentric.
I think that's right. If memory serves I had to move mine and used a bottle jack to get it all lined up again -- but it's been a while now...
Im hoping if I use my jack under the trailing arm to keep the whole thing supported, it wont give me trouble.