Alignment check / issues

This good alignment, they did all they could with your set up. If you want less caster degree you need more lift. 2016 caster range spec is 1.2 - 2.7 the TC ucas designed to run with 3" lift on 2nd gen, if you want same aligment results on 3rd get you will need to run 3" lift. But then having 3" lift on 3rd gen will possibly lead to more problems. That's why I would not use any tubular ucas on 3rd gen that was designed for 2nd gen. I would go with LR and 2.5 caster and Max caster on lower arms.

 

That OEM caster range is the reason why some folks rub and some folks don't. I would imagine 1.2 would drive very differently than 2.7.

 

As far as I can see your alignment is fine and you should be good to go. Keep your tire pressure up and rotate them every 5-7k and should have good tire life, barring any off road incidents.

The Caster is not normally a wear angle, it will help you control or change certain driving characteristics of the vehicle. Being a little above max spec simply means you should have a steady feel on the open road as opposed to wandering all over. The latter would be negative caster. Extreme positive caster will give you the chopper motorcycle effect, the front wheel way up front you get king of the road feel, but not so good making the tight turn into the biker bar.
Camber is not generally considered a wear angle either, the old F-150's had solid beam suspension and lots of positive camber that ppl couldn't adjust and blamed tire wear on it. But it wasn't that, it was our next adjustment angle.
Toe, is the main concern as far as tire wear and depending on how fast you drive on the hwy, .05*-.20* should be just fine, and you appear to be right on target.

Alignment can't entirely compensate for a bad tire pull to either side, nor should it, tire replacement is best. Nor tire rubbing without going to extreme above the factory spec. But that would depend on the type of suspension and tire combination installed. Wheel offset and lift are the first method of choice to resolve tire rub IMO.

Hope that helps
Cheers!

 

Back from another round at KalTire (no charge, of course). They don't have 2016 specs and can't do anything about that. Told them to set toe & camber to 0, or as close as possible, and set caster to 3.5. They got this done, and I could no longer reproduce the rubbing on the 5 min drive home. So far so good. Will test out more thoroughly in the evening, and still have to see how it does at higher speeds. Fingers crossed it's all fine.

Any more issues and off to a specialty shop it goes.

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/attachm...-alignment_adjustment-2016-tacoma-pdf.921335/

 

The thrush angle looks good, I'd like the toe at 0.15* total if your planing hwy speeds and if you're happy with your turning radius you should be fine.
Overall you should be good to go.

Cheers!

 

I'm pretty happy with how it rides now. Just spent about an hour driving at various speeds, and only observation is an ever-so-slight pull to the right after about 5 seconds of hands off the steering wheel. Not an issue worth getting a new alignment for, IMO.

 

Nothing to indicate it's coming from the alignment. The road crown in the middle will let your vehicle drift to the right, so most pros will give you 0.25* more negative caster on the left wheel to compensate when and if possible, but it's no big deal, nothing wrong.

hope that helps
Cheers!

 

exactly, by default toyota has positive caster on one wheel to compensate. I didn't like that, so I had my tech set everything equal.