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Alignment, Caster, Clearance, and Driving Report with Light Racing UCAs

Discussion in 'Suspension' started by bjmoose, May 24, 2011.

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  1. Apr 21, 2015 at 1:34 PM
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    Yeah...covered them with it, next time I burn the truck instead of the bushings.
     
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  2. Apr 21, 2015 at 1:51 PM
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    I went through 5 alignments and a total of 8 hours between them until the third shop dialed it in.
     
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  3. Apr 21, 2015 at 2:19 PM
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  4. Apr 24, 2015 at 4:05 AM
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    Finally have my numbers on the alignment..seems pretty good to me.

    alignment.jpg
     
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  5. May 12, 2015 at 2:48 AM
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    Ok I need some help guys so recently I have noticed my truck pulls to the right. So this morning when I was coming to work the truck suddenly felt like it was hovering and wandering pretty bad. It did it a couple times then it stop but still pulled to the right. I don't take my truck off-road or anything serious. I have had an alignment about 8 months ago when I installed my LR's took it to and off-road shop. Gonna get another alignment done hopefully next week what numbers should I be looking at? Also when I installed them hopefully I put them on the right position "D" anyone have a pic of where there's is set? Thanks for the help
     
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  6. May 12, 2015 at 7:59 AM
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    Yes sir
    With a 3" lift, most guys are trying to get as close to 3 degrees of caster, 0 degrees of camber, and 0 degrees of toe. "D" is straight if that makes sense, I'll see if I can snap a picture later, I'm just putting everything back together right now on the front suspension.
     
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  7. May 12, 2015 at 9:35 AM
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    Ok thanks I will try to take one also
     
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  8. May 12, 2015 at 1:50 PM
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    Sounds like your LR ball joints could be a problem. Alignments don't change on their own
     
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  9. May 12, 2015 at 3:38 PM
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    Or the top nut was not torqued properly and is moving in the slide
     
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  10. May 12, 2015 at 4:36 PM
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  11. May 13, 2015 at 5:21 AM
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    I only had them for maybe 10k miles.
    It didnt torque it didn't have wrench.
    :anonymous:
     
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  12. May 13, 2015 at 7:10 AM
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  13. May 13, 2015 at 8:12 AM
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    quoi
     
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  14. May 13, 2015 at 8:37 AM
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    Yes sir
    It didnt torque it didn't have wrench.

    Are you saying you don't have a torque wrench? Because you should definitely buy one ASAP... if you did all the work yourself, you need to torque all of those bolts you took out to manufacturer specifications. I used a Haynes repair manual which has all of the torque specifications in it.
     
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  15. May 13, 2015 at 8:54 AM
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    Yeah I didn't have one, I will buy one when I get off work and look up the torque specs
     
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  16. May 13, 2015 at 9:59 AM
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    I was looking at some of your numbers and mine seem off... any thoughts? Front left does rub a little bit when turning with some flex and front right doesn't at all.

    Front Left: Right:
    Camber 0.5* 0.1*
    Caster 4.8* 5.1*
    Toe 0.07* 0.06*

    Back Left: Right:
    Camber -0.3* -0.5*
    Toe 0.01* -0.01*
     
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  17. May 13, 2015 at 10:04 AM
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    How did you get caster so high?
     
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  18. May 13, 2015 at 10:15 AM
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  19. May 13, 2015 at 10:29 AM
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    Yes sir
    Yea caster seems a little too high, otherwise the camber and toe seem pretty good
     
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  20. May 13, 2015 at 10:33 AM
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    Yes sir
    For the LR UCA's, I believe the castle nut is 45 foot lbs, that big nut on top is 150 foot lbs, and the nut on the end of the long bolt that keeps the UCA attached to the frame is 85 foot lbs. You'll also probably want to get another cotter pin if you remove the one in the castle nut.

    Edit: Oh yea and you'll want to torque your lug nuts as well to 85 foot lbs. Buy a good torque wrench, you'll need a lot when working on your truck.
     
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