[W126 Coupe] Rear Wheel Alignment

[Steve Nervig]

I think what you need is the K-MAC kit. K-MAC is an Australian outfit that supplies rear (and front) camber and toe adjustment kits.

You can install them (they are adjustable eccentric bushings) yourself, but you really need someone who REALLY knows what they are doing to get a baseline and then adjust them. I am told you need a factory tool to properly measure the 'ride height' on the rear end before you can calculate the correct camber for the rear. It can not just be adjusted to some chart.

This is the best way to clear up the eventual sag that our rear ends take - by sag I mean the pronounced negative camber at the rear that tends to wear the inside of your expensive wide tires.

I think the W124 Sportline suspension rear camber amplifies the problem because while the springs are shorter than stock W124s, the rear camber links are the same part number. That's my theory anyway.

My suspension was really wearing the insides of my tires. So I had the K-Mac installed on my 300CE Sportline. Then my Master suspension man was able to do the 4 wheel alignment properly, and he got everything nearly dead nuts in the middle of the spec range, front and rear, side to side - something that no one else was able to do. He took a day and a half to carefully do this.

If you google K-MAC you'll find their website. An outfit here in the states sells the kits (www.shox.com) for less than 2/3s of the retail cost.

Regards,
Steve


On Tuesday, September 19, 2006, at 07:24AM, Robert Karl Stonjek <rstonjek at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

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