Patent ID: 7568711

Claim:
Apparatus for adjusting the caster and camber of a wheel of an all terrain vehicle which is mounted upon a hub supported from threaded stud mounted ball joints coupled with upper and lower control arms pivotally extending from the frame of the vehicle to attachment locations, comprising: a support member fixed to the upper control arm at said attachment location, having a cylindrical interior cavity disposed about a support axis extending between oppositely disposed support edges; a stud support having a flange with oppositely disposed flange surfaces and an inward cylindrical support portion slideably insertable within said cylindrical interior cavity and rotatably positionable about said support axis said stud support having a cylindrical open eccentric shaft extending therethrough having a shaft axis parallel with and radially displaced from said support axis when said support portion is located within said cavity and dimensioned to slideably receive the threaded stud; a retainer member engageable with said support member, oppositely disposed from said flange, rotatably positionable about said support axis and having a retainer opening corresponding with said eccentric shaft dimensioned to receive said threaded stud; an indexing assembly having mutually cooperative components adjustably engageable to rotatably position and fix said stud support at one of a plurality of caster defining orientations; and an adjustment nut threadably engaged with the stud and in abutment against the stud support inward cylindrical support portion adjacent the flange.