Wheel Alignment Jig

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Originally Posted by sambo

That's an interesting approach. With my car I just couldn't assume the wheels were square in the first place (don't go there). Two other methods:

1. Scribe a centre line on the underneath of the car, then run string lines parallel to that

OR

2. Lay a large builder's square over each corner where your alignment bar intersections the string lines and check for 90 degrees at each corner.

If your car is stable at high speeds and doesn't pull left or right then I'd suggest not messing with caster. I found it really hard to maintain a fixed camber setting while fiddling with caster. Gave up in the end!

I thought about the car/suspension being square so I measured that the two chassis round tubes were parallel and then measured from each rail to the hubs to check they were the same for the two fronts and two rears (within the measuring accuracy of my method).

It actually handled pretty well prior to this but the excessive camber on the rear (I found out was due to loose camber bolt) was buggering the rear toe.

Also I had to change my steering arms and tie rod ends so I needed a way to set it up again.

All good stuff - I like this as it helps me understand things better.


Totally different topic - Has anyone seen the "remote wireless QA1 Shocker adjustment system". I saw it in a mustang forum. You can modify your shocker settings via a wireless remote. Apparently you can retrofit it onto you existing twist knob click etc systems.

cheers

gregg