coming home from NM the afternoon i got hurtabout 4 weeks ago i was going down I-10 somewhere east of Sonora when i started to doze off, my truck was out of alignment and pulled to the right pretty good. when i started dozing off i relaxed my left pressure on the wheel and drifted into a guard rail grinding my lug nuts and bending the wheel studs before i could correct it.
I'm feeling a lot better so i got my tape measure and fixed the alignment today, drives much better. I'll take it down and have it done at the tire place after i replace the wheel studs, but it drive pretty damn straight now.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
Alignment has always been a mystery to me. My pickup's and Land Cruiser can go 100K+ miles and never need to be touched. Every car we have ever owned can't get through a single set of tires without being massaged.
Driving and sleeping don't mix. Many moons ago I was on the freeway and dozed off, I woke up with a semi driver blowing his horn, I looked out my drivers window and could see the trailer inches from my car. Lucky for me the driver was alert and not only blowing his horn but moving towards the side of the road to give me room.
I have never dozed off since.
Paul
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i learned how to do it using a tape measure, its not prefect but you can get it pretty damn close.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
Member, Clan of the Border Rats -- “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”- Mark Twain
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
....are you kicking the RHS of the rear axle forward (AGAIN 3/4 TO 7/8") a bit, Too ? ....in other words the wheel hub centers are than closer together on the drivers side ?
GTC
Member, Clan of the Border Rats -- “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”- Mark Twain
no i haven't, going to take it to the tire shop and have it all done once i change the wheel studs.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
Rebuilt the front end on my FJ40 soon after I bought it. Aligned it myself until I bought new tires, and then would have it done right. Twenty-three years later I sold it, and never did another thing to the front end. Read the book and got lucky I guess, never pulled, and the tires wore even, so it can happen.
stxhunter - glad you came out unhurt and with so little damage to the truck. Admire your doing the Q&D alignment yourself - good stuff - but fixing damage like that is minor compared to fixing your body. Hoping you don't have that problem again.
yeah i shouldn't of drove home after fracturing my collar bones, but i was worried if i didn't i'd be too stoved up the next day.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
yeah, they still hurt a little, going back to work next week. fell backwards out of a truck bed quail hunting.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
A month or so ago I bought a kit to let me do my own alignment. This for my "modernized" 73 Mach One coil over system. Given my short of "experience" with the locals and their digital data I have no doubt I will nail it.
