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| | | Joined: Jun 2013 Posts: 148 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2013 Posts: 148 | When I finished my truck I bought a set of tires from a local small supplier and truck alignment shop. Everything on the chassis was new. On the alignment they said it was off just a little on toe. I set it with a ruler when I put everything together. Moved from Mo to AZ, been driving it for 2 years and it always felt as I was a drunken sailor. Sorry you Navy guys. It would just go left then right. Always correcting it. You know when you get a feeling and it just wont go away. I pulled out my tape and it 3/8" toed out. Moved it back to 3/16" toe in and what a difference. Just rambling but do you need to check everyone's work? Sorry for complaining. | | | | | Joined: May 2015 Posts: 236 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2015 Posts: 236 | As a former drunken sailor we do not mind one bit.
As one who believe if you want it done right do it yourself, I agree if you let some one else work on things you better watch them, it did not used to be that way..
Baking in the nice desert sun, breathing life back into a 48 3800 5 window.
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,771 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,771 | We set the toe on the race car with a couple of flat aluminum plates held against the tire sidewalls and two tape measures, one ahead of the tire and the other one behind. We had a couple of 1/8" wide slots cut into the plates to hold the tapes steady, and just compared the front and rear readings. Simple, easy, and accurate, and VERY inexpensive!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | | | | | | Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 4,961 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 4,961 | We use one of these old fashioned Wheel a Matic scribes. http://www.wheel-a-matic.com/page9.htmlIt was cheap back in its day and it is simple. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | Jeg's toe-in plates Drill a hole in the top and bottom of the right and left side of each plate - use 2 bungee cords to hold plate to each wheel (run behind wheel) tool like crenwelge's (I have an old HF version - no longer listed for sale) | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,771 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,771 | Be sure the wheels are pointed straight ahead when checking toe- - - -it increases somewhat as the wheels turn away from dead center.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
| | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 | I set mine that way, even though I had access to a Hunter Hawkeye aligner.
Bill Burmeister
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 639 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 639 | Sharon Danella, must be the same guy did the alignment on my truck. When I checked it was toed out 1/8th of an inch. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 1,775 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 1,775 | | | |
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