Alignment Shop Austin Texas Area?
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5th Wheeling
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Alignment Shop Austin Texas Area?
Hi guys.
Does anybody know of an alignment shop in Austin Tx area that can still do castor/camber adjustments on these twin I beam Fords?
Everyone I've called around me, says that they remember how to do them. But the bending fixture was a tool kit issued by Ford
to service departments. And now, 50 years later, everybody threw them out because there's no call for it anymore.
Well, I know of one truck that needs it. Mine...
Pretty sure this comes up in this group. If you aren't taking it to an alignment shop, how do you deal with this?
I had to change my front springs (one broke). So now all of those adjustments over the years need to be taken out.
The Camber (? up and down) alignment of the wheels is way off with the new springs. So, the wheels are cupping on like half
of the tread towards the outside of the tires.
Thanks in advance.
Does anybody know of an alignment shop in Austin Tx area that can still do castor/camber adjustments on these twin I beam Fords?
Everyone I've called around me, says that they remember how to do them. But the bending fixture was a tool kit issued by Ford
to service departments. And now, 50 years later, everybody threw them out because there's no call for it anymore.
Well, I know of one truck that needs it. Mine...
Pretty sure this comes up in this group. If you aren't taking it to an alignment shop, how do you deal with this?
I had to change my front springs (one broke). So now all of those adjustments over the years need to be taken out.
The Camber (? up and down) alignment of the wheels is way off with the new springs. So, the wheels are cupping on like half
of the tread towards the outside of the tires.
Thanks in advance.
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If your tires are cupping, that is usually a sign of bad shocks with the bounce creating the cupping, from my first TIB in 1984 on my 1966 F100 to all the ones I have owned in the last 45+ yrs, I have never needed to have the camber/caster set, ever... I have adjusted the toe-in/out but never needed to have the I-beams bent, and I've been pretty rough on a few of them, like tank traps at Camp Lejeune tough...
What springs did you put in your truck? On one of my 66 F250's I bought new springs for a lift, slowly cut small lengths out till I got the height I wanted, still never had it aligned and it drove great.
Did you rplc your shocks with the new springs?
What springs did you put in your truck? On one of my 66 F250's I bought new springs for a lift, slowly cut small lengths out till I got the height I wanted, still never had it aligned and it drove great.
Did you rplc your shocks with the new springs?
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5th Wheeling
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So here's some pictures of what I've got going on. This tire was on the driver's side front.
As you can see the wear is pretty pronounced. I saw that chunks of rubber were coming off
and put on the spare until I can get this figured out. To answer the question; No haven't changed the shocks yet.
Waiting on them to show up (RockAuto).
And while I agree, cupping usually means shocks. This doesn't look like that to me.
Lead Driver
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Try the old school method for checking your toe-in/out, from the picture (which can be deceiving) your truck looks to have a bit of toe-in, which would correlate to your tire wear, add in bad shocks... for some reason, my 97 F350 4x I had started wearing the fronts like that, just out of the blue, adjusted the toe the old school way, then got it to a shop to dbl check my work, it was spot on.
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