Alignment Numbers Check With Lift

Hello all,

Just wanted to get my alignment numbers from the shop looked at by some of you that are more knowledgeable than I am. Just replaced the upper control arms with OEM Toyota ones and the lower ones as well with OEM. Truck is lifted with a OME lift that included coils, leafs, shocks, etc. Everything else is stock including the tire size of 245/75/16. It's a 2014 single cab too. If someone could just give me opinions on it I'd appreciate you taking time out of your day. I just want to make sure with these numbers my front tires won't wear too bad since I've had issues in the past. Thanks and take care.

 

Those caster numbers are really bad. Are you on factory ucas? How much lift?

 

Caster is super low, they need to let the camber go high in order to raise the caster.

Should be able to get 1.2-1.5 caster, anything less than 1 is not good enough.

 

Would need to know how much lift, but either way those numbers are far from desirable.

 

It's a 3 inch lift on a single cab with 245/75/16s. On stock upper and lower control arms. What is bad about those numbers? I'm really struggling to find a decent alignment shop out by me and while I know how to do suspension work I'm not very educated on actual aligning. How will these numbers affect my driving and tire wear? Am I safe to drive? I drove it around today and was happy with how it drove and tracked down I80 doing 80 mph.

 

Also, I've had two sets of SPC control arms and each set was junk. Only got about 20000 miles out of the bushings before they were rattling super bad. OEM has always been reliable and while I use my truck hard I don't abuse it and service it to the letter. Northern Nevada is punishing on trucks especially if you are always out exploring the hills/mountains, hunting, and bushwhacking. I just want safety, decent handling for a 4x4, and decent tire wear.

 

Ahh now it makes sense. Too much lift for stock UCA or not enough forward adjustment (or maxed out) on LCA adjustment. Buy some good aftermarket UCAs. Search the Suspension subforum, this has all been done before.

 

I can’t imagine it drives well with those caster #s but that’s really a personal preference imo. Where you say it drove ok I’d probably say it drove crappy.