teedough

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Thanks for the reply. Made an appt for monday morning

CEELOSG37S

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Yea no problem man.

TVPostSound

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Thats how an alignment is supposed to be done, what the f#@% do they do at Firestone??

Thanks for reminding me, I had to put my stock front arms back on, need Henry to reset my toe.

CEELOSG37S

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Ahaha yup that's definitely how it's done man. I honestly have no idea what the hell firestone was doing but I paid for a lifetime alignment for nothing lol.

TVPostSound

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I figured it out!!
Many places have a remote screen, with a go/no go light.
They change the adjustment until the light goes green. Meamimg its within specs. But we know within specs is very wide.

Henry watches the numbers on the Hunter screen.

CEELOSG37S

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Yea that's most likely what they do cause I never saw em go under the car at all. Now that I found this place though I'm tempted to lower my car more lol.

CEELOSG37S

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At one point I went into firestone to get an "alignment" cause I had just gotten my camber kit installed and my camber and toe were off so they tell me that they can fix the toe but they refused to even try to adjust my camber cause they supposeably didn't want to damage anything which is crap so I went home with -4 camber lol.

teedough

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+1 for this place. Recommended.

TVPostSound

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Bump up for Temple City alignment.
I had a hair up my *** this week, and cut the rear spring perch down 1/2",
and needed realignment. Called Henry, told him Saturday AM was the only time I could go down there, he happily booked me!!.
I drive over 30 miles to have him align it.

This is what a good alignment should read.
Eibach springs with front and rear SPC camber arms, and toe bolts.
I wanted just a little bit of neg camber on the front.

Mike

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Tape measures and levels.

It's much faster, with someone who's experienced, and the tools don't fall out of calibration.

J2S2M

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Sounds like Darrin's method at West End Alignment.

Mike

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TVPostSound

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Bubble gauges do fall out of calibration, I learned alignments in the mid 70s with a bubble gauge and tram gauge. Many errors can occur. There is absolutely nothing wrong with a computer alignment machine, as long as you know theory.

With that being said, you should be using a typewriter with cups and strings!!
Driving a car with a carburetor, and distributor points.

JSolo

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Strings & cup is too high tech!!! Smoke signals ftw!