I am posting my alignment specifications and was wondering if anyone can shed some light on it. I still have some front end wandering issues and I am trying to narrow it down so that I don't start throwing money in the wrong direction.

I here lots of people talk about camber/caster and I am not sure what the best setting should be. I want to take it back to my alignment shop for them to revisit it and have them set it different.

When the wind blows it moves my truck and I don't like it. Its only greater when I was towing and made for a frustrating drive.



I have updated almost everything on the front end of this vehicle.
1. v/b mode springs
2. new rancho 9000 shocks
3. new helwig rear sway bar
4. new front sway bar energy suspension bushing
5. new Moog ball joints upper and lower
6. all new end links tie rods and all that stuff.
7. new pitman arm.

Tim M

 

Nothing on there too concerning, except the right rear toe. Where they too lazy to bring it back to zero?

As for the wandering issue, you don't mention your steering box. Have you investigated this in the work you've done? My stock box was bad enough that I had to replace it and the current one works MUCH better. It was the single greatest fix I made for the wandering. I also changed out all of the front bearings, etc, and added the Hellwig in the rear, so mine is pretty rock-solid.

 

Ya not sure why they didn't make it even. You would think they would want it to measure the same on both sides.

Here is more to my story.....
I did the v/b swap and then took it to the alignment shop and they said all ball joints and tie rods are no good. So I changed those out with Moogs.

The minute I changed to the Moogs ball joints my steering became horrible. It would not return to center which made me have to continually steer my X. It had a wandering feeling. I wanted to swap out those balljoints right away as that was a result of moogs, they are tight. I was going to replace with either the reybestos or the XRF's.

I ended up removing my steering dampener and airing down the tires. It helped with the return to center but wasn't where it should be. I also loosened the steering box which helped the return to center (not completely) and made the drive much better.

Last week over memorial weekend was my first long haul with the trailer and I was getting blown around by the wind and passing vehicles. Not too fun of a drive. The way home there was less wind and it performed better.

This past weekend I took a drive with the family without the trailer and I could feel the wind blowing me again.

I am not sure what I am going to due next but I did start reading more about the Redhead. It was a modification I didn't think I would need but at some point wanted to do.

Tim M