TTB Steering geometry

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Apr 5, 2018 | 09:20 AM

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Franklin2

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From: Virginia

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Originally Posted by bpimm

I can't find my bump gauges, I'll have to build another set. normally I pull the springs to check bump through the travel but that's going to be a bit tough with leaf's, have to figure out how to compress the suspension to measure the compression side of the curve, the rebound side is easy.

Feel and stability both, Most of my driving is on rough back roads, almost never sees any highway miles. I need to check out the front end myself and see whats going on not rely on someone else. the place that aligned it supposedly knew these front ends, I took it to them because it had tire wear on it when I bought it, they said it was all good and tight and didn't need an alignment as it was all in spec.

The alignment place should have given you a computer readout from the alignment machine and all the specs should have been green. The alignment guys are famous for fudging the alignment on these trucks, because it's so difficult to do. The last time I took a ttb in, I had replace all the balljoints and put never seize on the upper eccentrics to make it easy for them. They still charged me close to $80, and that was a long time ago. It would have been more if I would have had to buy new eccentric bushings, which is a common thing to have to do.