Ok I found out just what MBX I have, it's a Ofna Ultra MBX R2. (I guess the Ultra is the rear pillow balls).
Anyways I downloaded the manual for this car. Everything in manual is exactly the way this car is built "parts wise'.
On page 9, building the front swing arms and suspension it gives you the spacing specs, 3mm for the bottom pillow ball and 3.5mm for the top pillow ball. (See picks) it also tells you to set the ride height grub screw to 3mm, and this makes the lower a-arm level ride height.
(Strange it doesn't tell the gap spacing for the rear pillowballs) but it does for the front.
Stranger, that at the rear of the manual on page 26, it tells you the front camber should be set to "0" and the rear -1 for the rear. With the wheels just before lifting off the table.
It's a drastic difference when adjusting the top pillow ball to get to the zero caster, like 3-5mm difference turning it out to get the hub to be at zero. Why wouldn't they just say 5mm instead of the 3.5mm when building it.
So, should I do as pg 26 says and set the car up as zero "0*" camber front and rear to 1* negative (I know it's just a starting point and more dialing in will be needed) or should I leave it as built? If I leave it as built per building spec the front camber is a drastic 3*ish negative.
I'm rebuilding the car and trying to set it up to factory starting point, so I did zero out the front and dialed in the -1 for the rear. Just boggles my mind why it's built, then re-adjusted when it could have been just built to spec during building.
I wonder why to start out at zero with the ride height set, the lift the car to readjust it. Strange, because if the ride height is set with grub screws, it's not like lifting the wheels off the table will change anything as the arms won't decompress due to the grub screws. Thats pretty much all this 40-page manual says about setting up the car.
Anyways I downloaded the manual for this car. Everything in manual is exactly the way this car is built "parts wise'.
On page 9, building the front swing arms and suspension it gives you the spacing specs, 3mm for the bottom pillow ball and 3.5mm for the top pillow ball. (See picks) it also tells you to set the ride height grub screw to 3mm, and this makes the lower a-arm level ride height.
(Strange it doesn't tell the gap spacing for the rear pillowballs) but it does for the front.
Stranger, that at the rear of the manual on page 26, it tells you the front camber should be set to "0" and the rear -1 for the rear. With the wheels just before lifting off the table.
It's a drastic difference when adjusting the top pillow ball to get to the zero caster, like 3-5mm difference turning it out to get the hub to be at zero. Why wouldn't they just say 5mm instead of the 3.5mm when building it.
So, should I do as pg 26 says and set the car up as zero "0*" camber front and rear to 1* negative (I know it's just a starting point and more dialing in will be needed) or should I leave it as built? If I leave it as built per building spec the front camber is a drastic 3*ish negative.
I'm rebuilding the car and trying to set it up to factory starting point, so I did zero out the front and dialed in the -1 for the rear. Just boggles my mind why it's built, then re-adjusted when it could have been just built to spec during building.
I wonder why to start out at zero with the ride height set, the lift the car to readjust it. Strange, because if the ride height is set with grub screws, it's not like lifting the wheels off the table will change anything as the arms won't decompress due to the grub screws. Thats pretty much all this 40-page manual says about setting up the car.