Long Travel BS Thread

Alignment for sure. Going to handle like shit on road.

 

^^^This is what I do

 

That is way better of an idea than just leaving it alone.

 

Pick up some toe plates. Then you can do a quick check or alignment before every trip. They aren't that expensive and it's another cool tool your friends don't have.

 

How do you guys find someone who can handle aligning a long travel truck? Back home its not too difficult but I live in a town right now where Im probably the only long travel truck in town other than raptors. Can most places pull it off or what?

 

I had Firestone align my LT truck like once a month under the lifetime alignment. Best $$ I ever spent.

 

Firestone kicked me out pretty much when they saw my truck. They said "We can only adjust the toe when you put those big lifter kits and tires". So now I'm going to borrow a dealerships rack and try to align it myself.

 

Firestone off the 78 and El Camino does great work and never complained about my suspension.

 

Why in the hell would anyone ever pay $115 for an alignment?

 

I think around 80 is standard, but I'm not sure if Firestone and shops like that touch caster??

Also if it's off of heims wouldn't that entail a lot more work?

 

My good experience with Firestone was using all factory alignment points and not heims. They will adjust caster if you ask in my case.

 

I have the lifetime one out here and people say they won't touch em. Guess I'll have to try one day

 

If you have a toyota dealership, I'd try them if nobody else will. My dealership did an alignment on my truck and its probably the best I've had. It was around $80-90

 

Ill give it a try, I feel like they wont touch it though, im sure I can find someone to do it but prerunners are pretty foreign out here so I try not to make too many adjustments until I head back to california where there are a lot more shops who deal with prerunners

 

Wish I could borrow a rack for a day...would have a perfect alignment

 

Just tac the tabs when you get a nice alignment..

 

True Line is an alignment place here in SD that most recommend and they do a true alignment old school not just relying on what the computer tells them for $55. I guess if someone has heims that may be more. I don't know if Gabe has heim's.

Just looked through all my recent posts, and I don't see where I have been more of a douchebag than I normally am. I can only assume you are taking about this current comment and me asking why you would drive from Oceanside to Mission Valley to have springs removed.

Well Gabe I'm sorry I you offended buddy. Not my intention.

My bad

 

I have 12"300, 12"350 and 14" 400lbs that you can borrow to test, they aren't the right length but you can install them and see how much preload you need to find the right weight you need

 

Fantastic. I really appreciate it. You going to be around this weekend? Im tearing the truck down for sand blasting and cab cage. Might as well do spring work as well.