King Coilover Help

hey guys. I recently installed my Camburg LT kit on my first gen and I’m currently in the process of getting the alignment straight enough to drive to the shop for an accurate alignment.

I want to adjust my front King coilovers a little to give me some more ride height up front. My question is, should this be done BEFORE the alignment? Or does adjusting the height of the shocks not matter to the alignment?

Sorry if this is a dumb question lol I’m still kind of new to the way alignments work.

Thanks in advance fellas

 

Toyota's are hyper sensitive to ride height changes so set your ride height before getting it aligned. Adjusting it later will change the alignment specs.

Scott @ Camburg

 

Go for max positive caster, set camber 0 to 1/4 degree negative and set toe to factory specs.

 

Awesome will do, thanks a million for the input!

 

Speaking of Scott at Camburg, you sent me those specs for my LT kit. I’ve had two shops now “align” it. It at least drives better now but I’m still getting uneaten tire wear. And my front LCA cams are pointed different directions. Not sure if this is normal. Just doesn’t seem like any shops really want to mess with these trucks. It’s like there’s no shops good enough to just set it correctly without trying hitting all the factory numbers. Very frustrating.....

 

@Armament What are your alignment specs now? What kind of tire wear are you getting? Have you tried rotating your tires? What about tire pressure? Your alignment cams setting will be different side to side because you typically do a caster split to compensate for the crown of the road since it's not perfectly flat. We setup the passenger side with .25-.5 more positive caster.

The main aspects that effect tire wear is camber, toe and tire pressure.

Scott @ Camburg

 

Apparently they are right we’re you told me to put them. But my right front tire still has a bout a 1” section of tread on the inside that doesn’t touch. My left side tire has great, even wear. Maybe I’m stupid. But I can’t for the life of me figure out how I can have negative camber, and still have a 1” section of tire on the inside, that doesn’t even touch? Yet, my left front “supposedly” has the exact same camber setting now and has perfect wear letters? Both running the same pressure (30psi)? He said he was able to get all the numbers right that you provided. But after a quick drive through some mud, then highway back home, Ray Charles could see there’s absolutely no tread contact on the inside tread on my right front. Yet, it’s “the same” as the left. The left has perfect tread wear....

 

Check out how to set camber and caster plus how to see info on alignment cams on a 2nd gen. Just for enrichment if you aren’t comfortable with diy for it.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/how-to-do-an-alignment-at-home.252256/

 

@motoxscott when I get back into the US I’ll email you some details and the alignment sheet, which I’m assuming is BS now as tread wear says otherwise. Why is it so hard for a shop that does nothing but alignments to do it right! Anyway, thank you and I’ll get with you next week

 

@Armament Like you said if specs were the same, tire wear should be about the same. Maybe try swapping the tires and try the mud test again. You wonder if the tire has a different crown to it or something. Maybe look at the tire ID info and see if they are from the same production date/batch.

Scott