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Old Oct 2, 2010 | 10:51 PM
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on my 93 f150 i put stiffer/ taller springs in the front and it has my alignment messed up. i know i need new camber and caster bushings which i got but on jcwhitney they had a set of drop down brackets that go on where the IFS attaches to the frame and had adjustable camber bushings that would help the alignment but i looked recently and jcwhitney doesn't have it any more. does anyone know where i might find them. i know i can get new radius arms to extend them but it is kind of out of my price range.


well found them what do you guys think? i might get them so my tires dont look like crap anymore

http://www.jcwhitney.com/alignment-b...c11313d19344j1

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Old Oct 3, 2010 | 12:25 AM
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You'd be better off just buying a lift kit with all the brackets.
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Old Oct 5, 2010 | 09:01 PM
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Well, if there are no strength/structure issues, it would sure be easier to get camber adjustment through these than by trying to guess which freaking camber bushings to wrestle with in a rusty-assed truck like mine. Also, if you're paying an alignment shop to do it, you'll get your spec in a couple of minutes instead of an hour or so, assuming they got the right bushings to begin with. That would make it both much cheaper and much easier to adjust this time and in the future if you changed your tires or lift again. Also looks like they would accomodate a pretty wide range of lift, but (like Just Call me Sean said) at some point you would need to get a proper kit to keep all of the other geometries and relationships right in addition to just the camber issues. I for one would like to know if you like them if you choose to use them.
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Old Oct 6, 2010 | 09:41 AM
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take a look at jeffs bronco graveyard i think they had them, but your definatly better off buying rough countrys 2.5 lift kit it come with all the stuff bolts and everything and buy the time you buy all those drop brackets you could have paid for the lift kit, i think in jcwhitney its like 200 but look online for a discount code, i did and found one for 40 off so i paid 160 for my lift kit
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Old Oct 6, 2010 | 02:21 PM
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if i can find one for the same price as those brackets i will do that. i think thats all the lift im doing anyways.
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