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paul2005tb

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What is the string method? Iink?
 

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Do a Google search “string alignment method”.

I’ve seen some bad alignments, and always thought that the only way you would know if you got a good alignment was to wait/drive your car for six months and the tires didn’t have uneven war, you might have a good alignment. That said, is why I always do my own alignments. If the caster and camber is reasonably close, toe-in all that is left to set.
 
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TJBaker57

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For a quick down and dirty check of tire scrub that might ruin some front tires quickly I set up a set of flat sheet metal rectangles greased and sandwiched together. I then roll the front tire of one side of the vehicle over the metal sandwich and watch for movement of the metal. Got the idea from an alignment tool we used back in the 70s. I would call it a tire scrub gauge maybe. Read out toe-in if I remember correctly.

 

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