Another alignment thread!
Is there any reason you cannot align it yourself? IE physical problems? I just turned 70, and say, 3 or so years ago, aligned mine myself. "You don't need much."
I don't even have a shop, I use my car trailer!!! Put the car on the trailer and jack/ block it up level.
1...Set ride height. "It's in the book." The shop manual that is.......which you can download, free, from MyMopar. Some of them there came from the guys on here
2....Set/ argue in caster/ camber. You do NOT need lasers or even fancy caster/ camber gauges. You can MAKE one if you are a bit handy. ALL you need to set camber is a gauge to measure degrees off plumb. In this day and age you can buy "digital" gauges ate Lowe's/ HD, etc that will work fine. Mine is an old Ammco
3...Caster There is actually no such thing as a gauge that measures caster. It ACTUALLY computes caster from camber and wheel angle. You can do the same. You make an angle indicator (protractor) at the wheel. You measure CAMBER with wheels straight ahead. To measure CASTER, you turn the wheels in 20 degrees and measure camber. Turn them out 20 degrees and measure camber again. Take the difference between the two readings and multiply X 1.5 and that is your CASTER reading. My antique Ammco guage works the same way, the scale which does so is simply a circular slide rule
4...Toe. Simple. Crackedback props 2x4's alongside the tires on top of soda cans to space them up. I use a rig I bought off egag. You can MAKE a spike for marking the tire centerline, and if you don't want to make a toe gauge, then round up your wife/ son/ etc and use a tape
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I got lucky. I scored this old caster/ camber gauge and the wheel turning plates off CL For turning plates you can use some scrap tile or sheet metal with grease or salt and maybe a few other things to lube them
ALL THIS IS REALLY is a plumb level that shows degrees off plumb
Turning plates
This is my toe gauge which allows me to do a "one man" toe setup, for 60 bucks off Egag. Turns out it was for a truck and way too tall, I had to cut the base off, and buy a chunk of tube for the cross piece ALL THIS IS REALLY is a tape
The triangular thing at top is a spring loaded spike allows you to turn the tire and scribe a center "plane" line to measure from.
Is there any reason you cannot align it yourself? IE physical problems? I just turned 70, and say, 3 or so years ago, aligned mine myself. "You don't need much."
I don't even have a shop, I use my car trailer!!! Put the car on the trailer and jack/ block it up level.
1...Set ride height. "It's in the book." The shop manual that is.......which you can download, free, from MyMopar. Some of them there came from the guys on here
2....Set/ argue in caster/ camber. You do NOT need lasers or even fancy caster/ camber gauges. You can MAKE one if you are a bit handy. ALL you need to set camber is a gauge to measure degrees off plumb. In this day and age you can buy "digital" gauges ate Lowe's/ HD, etc that will work fine. Mine is an old Ammco
3...Caster There is actually no such thing as a gauge that measures caster. It ACTUALLY computes caster from camber and wheel angle. You can do the same. You make an angle indicator (protractor) at the wheel. You measure CAMBER with wheels straight ahead. To measure CASTER, you turn the wheels in 20 degrees and measure camber. Turn them out 20 degrees and measure camber again. Take the difference between the two readings and multiply X 1.5 and that is your CASTER reading. My antique Ammco guage works the same way, the scale which does so is simply a circular slide rule
4...Toe. Simple. Crackedback props 2x4's alongside the tires on top of soda cans to space them up. I use a rig I bought off egag. You can MAKE a spike for marking the tire centerline, and if you don't want to make a toe gauge, then round up your wife/ son/ etc and use a tape
===========================================
I got lucky. I scored this old caster/ camber gauge and the wheel turning plates off CL For turning plates you can use some scrap tile or sheet metal with grease or salt and maybe a few other things to lube them
ALL THIS IS REALLY is a plumb level that shows degrees off plumb
Turning plates
This is my toe gauge which allows me to do a "one man" toe setup, for 60 bucks off Egag. Turns out it was for a truck and way too tall, I had to cut the base off, and buy a chunk of tube for the cross piece ALL THIS IS REALLY is a tape
The triangular thing at top is a spring loaded spike allows you to turn the tire and scribe a center "plane" line to measure from.
