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Thuren alignment specs?

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I have a question for anyone that might come across this that has the T -stearing linkage/tie rods on their truck.

Any experience with the "Thuren alignment specs" ? Very specific that you have t-style linkage or disregard spec's,   0.0 - 0.05 toe and 3.8 - 4.2 caster, I believe the emphasis is on the 0.0 toe?

Just had it aligned and NOT happy with factory spec's, always holding the steering wheel to one side or the other, back and forth, back and forth...

 Anyone know a good alignment shop in Boise/treasure valley area?

  Thanks!

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  • Haggar
    Haggar

    Don,   The normal toe for our trucks is +/- 0.1 degrees.  So he has tightened that up a bit.   Same with the castor.  He is in the right range, he just removed the -1.0 degrees the factor al

  • AH64ID
    AH64ID

    Again, if Schwab admits it drives off and won’t redo the alignment then you should get your money back.    Why didn’t they tell you the ball joints were worn the first time? 

  • Haggar
    Haggar

    do the cam bolts look like they were touched recently?  They SHOULD have been adjusted during your front end alignment.  It sounds like to me, that you got a "toe and go".  Sorry you don't have good p

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great!  Glad it worked out.

 

Sorry some alignment shops are "toe and go".  You just have to avoid them.

 

Hag

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FYI, it was not easy turning those bolts that direction, I used a 1/2 in breaker bar with a small floor jack under it, basically with bar at lowest point possible and then jacking up to horizontal and then tighten nut.

 (Might help someone else out)

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    4 hours ago, dieseldon said:

    it was not easy turning those bolts

    When I had to change my control arms the "liquid wrench" - aka the torch - was utilized. Much smoke. Tried cutoff wheel on 9" grinder to cut, but bucked a couple times thanks to rubber and I decided on another route that wouldn't involve broken bones, etc.

     

    New bolts and new arms made it easy to adjust, as long as I took weight off axle for the big adjustment. Final tightening of bolt done with full weight on truck to prevent preload in the rubber bushing.

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    Thanks LorenS, maybe it was because I had the weight of the truck on the axles? But turning the cam lobe towards the rear of truck was doable, turning them past 12 o'clock towards the axle wasn't, they would just spring back with force, hence the reason I had to hold the breaker bar with Jack.

    The bolts are probably rusted to the inner sleeve of the bushing in the control arm.  Use never-seize liberally!!!!  And Don, being in Idaho, depending on the salt, you may need to keep protecting those joints with something yearly,  I think I see Eric on south main auto using some kind of waxy spray?....

     

    GL
    Hag

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    They use tons of salt out here in Idaho now. That is one of the biggest problems I face is rusted fasteners for suspension and other thing external to the cab. For all that stuff like the camber adjustment you could pull the bolt out and mop on the anti-seize and reassemble.  

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    Thanks, might do that next decent day weather size.

    My guess is probably toast the bushings in process?

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