I’m having an issue with my front tires wearing on the outside extremely bad. I just had new tires put on and had the alignment checked. They said the alignment was fine. They recommended changing shocks and replacing sway bar end links. Should I take it somewhere else for an alignment check or are the shocks my issue? Any help is appreciated. 2011 f350 dually, 220,000 miles. Has rough country steering stabilizers on the front. Picture attached showing the wear on the tires

 

Camber is off. Shop is dumber than a bag of hair. So at this point those tires are trash, even corrected the tires will continue to wear more on the outside. So you need to find a shop that KNOWS what a eccentric cam alignment is and how its conducted (quick check is to ask to see the 0/0 setup cams, they don't know what you speak of, keep er movin they aint the place). Ford truck alignments aren't normal or 10 minute jobs where you heat a sleeve, twist, shove in a shim, twist a bolt. You gotta pull the eccentrics, put in the 0/0 eccentric cams, shoot your baseline, get the proper eccentrics to adjust camber and caster, put them in, shoot the new alignment and hopefully its real close if you did it right. double sleeve eccentrics are really where its at so you can shoot the 0/0, consult the setup chart, setup the dual adjustment cams, shoot the setup and make the minor tweaks on the cams to get it spot on. That can be an easy hour or 2 or 3 if the cams and upper ball joints give you some guff. Most shops just loosen the capture bolt, tweak the existing cam, and leave it when its "close enough" which is the median between camber and caster being "close", or 5 minutes of screwing around with the "wrong" cams, whichever comes first. You got a "f'it, good enough" last time alignment was done. Maybe Ray Charles did the last one, he clearly was the tech at the last shop you went to. Shocks won't correct this, springs won't correct this unless its a 2wd and they're sagging by an inch (sag would cause inside tire wear, outside wear on a twin beam IFS ford would be taller than stock). Even then, you can re-align for the sag and it will be good at that new ride height. 4wd solid axle springs and shocks are out of the question, at 220k I'd replace both (so they're new and full of life) and then get it re-aligned and not think about it again while you own it.

 

Yep, find another alignment shop- those goons don't know what they're talking about. There's, LITERALLY, and I mean LITERALLY, no. possible. way. your shocks and swaybar end links can create that tire wear scenario. lol jeez..... some people..... how do they get dressed in the morning??

 

Camber is messed up...
I can see that all the way from Texas.
Did not even need a rack to tell me that.

 

^^^ ....that was my though too, but I'm in Colorado.