Alignment with TT Attached?
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Laughing Gas
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Alignment with TT Attached?
Anybody perform a front end/wheel/tire alignment while attached to your travel trailer (TT)? After towing for about hundred miles, I took tire temps from the outside/inside and center of each tire. Rear temps, I guess I’m stuck with, but the front is adjustable.
If you have, please let me know what steps you took.
Thanks.
If you have, please let me know what steps you took.
Thanks.
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The front end alignment really shouldn't change when towing.
Excursions (at least the 4x4 models) have a T-type steering setup so toe doesn't change as the suspension cycles, camber is set by the knuckles, so it wouldn't change, and a I suppose if you squatted the rear a bunch castor would change, but it would change in the direction that makes the steering more stable.
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Excursions (at least the 4x4 models) have a T-type steering setup so toe doesn't change as the suspension cycles, camber is set by the knuckles, so it wouldn't change, and a I suppose if you squatted the rear a bunch castor would change, but it would change in the direction that makes the steering more stable.
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Laughing Gas
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Thanks guys. I guess the last guy that did my alignment really screwed up. The heat signatures on each tire (inside/outside/center) was all over the place. This was this past Friday.
Thanks again.
Thanks again.
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