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Old 05-07-2003, 11:15 AM
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That book is great. I found that after loosening the lock nut I was able to adjust the tie rod length without jacking up the car. A little more on my test drive--I took a couple of sharp corners in the neighborhood a little fast and it felt real steady. Accelerated up a sweeping ramp onto the 234 bypass also very steady. No vibration until 80 on the straight, and then minimal, might have just been the road. I've heard you feel the road a little more with the turbo rods. Still, it was much less than I felt at 60 before the alignment. I dove the bypass because I drive it several times a week and am familiar with the way the car feels on it. Drove pretty hard until a couple blocks from home, and when I felt the front tires after parking they were about body temperature all the way across. I don't have one of those tire temp gauges but the lowering of temperature from before the alignment was obvious to the touch, particularly on the inside surface. By the way, you could probably tell from my first post that I used the "difference from plumb line" method for the camber. I bought one of those angle scales from Home Depot and fashioned a gauge to get a line off the rim, but it was so awkward trying to measure the angle with that method that I had no confidence that it was accurate. The plumb line method is a lot easier and you get a direct measurement from plumb which obviates all the math.
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