Front End Alignment
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Toe in (or out ) will not cause a pull or tire wear on one tire only. The pull is usually a tire issue, first verify tire psi, if it still pulls then swap your ft tires side to side (no it wont make your tires explode as the old wives used to say) and see if it pulls the other way or the pull goes away.
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Not necessarily true. Toe will cause wear on the outside edges.
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What kind of place should I bring it to, then? Wow, and I was hoping it'd be cheap and quick since it was an old truck.
I'm limited to name brand places where I live, lol. And I kind of live in the country, but the only place I can think of that would be 'professional' is a Ford dealership.. But I hate dealerships and I'll probably leave with a leaking radiator and an oil leak if I take it in to a stealership for a front end alignment. Dealerships just cost soooo much.
I'm limited to name brand places where I live, lol. And I kind of live in the country, but the only place I can think of that would be 'professional' is a Ford dealership.. But I hate dealerships and I'll probably leave with a leaking radiator and an oil leak if I take it in to a stealership for a front end alignment. Dealerships just cost soooo much.
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Ask the employees of auto parts stores if they can point you to local places that
do good work on trucks. Ask in your TN chapter.
You got it half right, it's an old truck.... 
do good work on trucks. Ask in your TN chapter.
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Thanks for all the help guys.
Can anyone tell me the set up I have from the pics I posted? It'd help me a lot calling around asking if they can work on a truck with 'such and such'.
Can anyone tell me the set up I have from the pics I posted? It'd help me a lot calling around asking if they can work on a truck with 'such and such'.
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You definitely need an alignment. It sounds like your toe-in is off. It's very common on the TTB axle. You should have it aligned every 15k miles or so, but you won't need to replace parts very often. The ball joints, tie rod ends and other parts should last a good 100-200k miles.
Find another alignment shop. Any place that thinks your truck has kingpins doesn't know dick about trucks and I sure wouldn't let them align mine.
I take mine to firestone. I bought a lifetime alignment and I can take it back as many times as I want and get it aligned for free.
Find another alignment shop. Any place that thinks your truck has kingpins doesn't know dick about trucks and I sure wouldn't let them align mine.
I take mine to firestone. I bought a lifetime alignment and I can take it back as many times as I want and get it aligned for free.
I just doubt myself too much... even though I lube the mother ****ers every 500 miles.
I will be going back up there and giving them a good piece of my mind.
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"service." As I said above, many run-of-the-mill places don't have the equipment
or expertise to deal with trucks....
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I'm gonna have to disagree... An old f150 shouldn't be a big deal to a "run of the mill" shop. Ctubutisis, you mentioned (I think) taking yours to a "truck" shop, I think you are going to have people more used to big tandem trucks and road tractors. A truck mechanic is less likely to know how to deal with camber bushings and ball joints than an auto mechanic
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I live in an area where there are lots of pickup trucks, 4x4s and, more recently,
SUVs. My advice is a general composite of what I've heard from people here
over the last 31 years. Of course, YMMV.
What I said:
good work on trucks of this era, that's all. Not trying to suggest he take it to the
Kenworth dealer at the local truck stop.
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