Anyone know any basic Alignment tricks ?

[asbfooh at yahoo.com (A J)]

Greg , thats exactly where I'm at , I just changed the
strut bearings to those older style ones (clunks gone
!) and now I have a bad strut up front thats makeing
my wheel rub like crazy , so I gotta change that strut
and I'll be back to needing to align it again , with a
level and measures ments is how they did it in old
days right ? so why couldnt someone do it at home if
they know what to measure and check for level ? Its
not a brand new car so getting it laser perfect should
be ok , there is all kinds of slop up there anyways  ,
Aaron-


--- gregdunn <gregdunn@prodigy.net> wrote:
> 
> More trouble than it's worth. (and it ain't worth
> much)
> Spend the $50.
> Go to a shop.
> ________
> 
> 
> I've gotta interject.  When I was in college and
> wrenching in a shop to make
> ends meet as a very poor college student, I spent
> $50 on a camber gauge.
> Best $50 I ever spent.  I was playing around with
> alignment settings and
> pulling things apart a lot so if I were to pay a
> shop to realign me every
> time I would have been out big bucks.
> 
> A couple caveats.  Make sure you get both strut
> mounting bolts tight to the
> correct torque.
> Make sure you adjust the tow AFTER doing the camber.
>  Adjusting the camber
> changes toe, adjusting toe doesn't change camber.
> 
> Make sure you have a level area to measure your
> camber.  If your car is on a
> 1 degree incline, that 1 degree negative camber
> turns into zero on one side
> and two degrees on the other.  Comprendas?  I took a
> couple plastic beakers
> with stands, epoxied some vacuum fittings to the
> base (after drilling holes
> to insert the fittings into) and connected the two
> beakers with windshield
> washer tubing.
> 
> Presto.  Instant water level.  With one piece of
> 1/8" plywood I had a
> perfectly level spot to do my alignments and marked
> the floor so I knew
> where to repeat the measurements.
> 
> Greg
> 
> cheap bastard that would rather spend money on tools
> and learning than
> paying for someone else's house.
> 
> 
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