well that's a hell of a lot better!

[clutchdust]

i've been fighting a pull in the front of my car for a while. since i don't drive it very often or very far i've just been putting up with it. today i had it in the shop and took a look at the front end. with the left wheel straight and in line with the rear wheel i looked at the right wheel and could *SEE* it turned in at least 1". talk about toe in! no wonder it would practically jerk my hand off the wheel whenever i hit a bump. just for shits and giggles i got under there and gave the tie rod a turn and a half. i'll be damned! what a difference it makes when both wheels are pointed in the same general direction.
still a little "darty" but at least i won't feel too bad putting fresh tires on the thing this week. which i'm in need of seeing as how i've corded the right front.

 

[SIXFOOTER]

Nuthin like an unbuggered front end

 

[mrvette]

An old alignment shop for some 40 years, was the only shop in town in Wash DC that I trusted for alignments....

one of their tests was that crazy W. Va. hillbilly tech of theirs, would do was walk around the car stand at the rear wheels, look straight down, then turn his head toward the front, same on the other side, then stand at the fronts, and look toward the rear, looking over top of the tires, and turning his head,....

THEN he would stick it on the machine, do his shit, then pull the car off, drive it around the block a few times, same route every time, every vehicle....

back into the garage, and to the same visual check .....only THEN would he release it, sometimes he would flunk it on the second visual, so it was back on the rack for another go, same routine until it passed the visual....

always right on, always perfect, hold for years....

I have taken to doing the same thing in my garage, as I do my own alignments, no choice here, I have not found ONE garage able to do a decent alignment in this town, yet....now that I do my own, hell with them, I quit looking....

:bump::thumbs:

 

[turtlevette]

I quit having my car aligned 10 years ago. It'd drive worse afterwards.

Now i just play with it until i get it to drive the way i want. Most shops adjust for 0 toe and it just drives like shit like that. Its ok for a modern car but not the C3.

An interesting thing had been happening lately. The vette keeps pulling to the right and i thought the tow truck operator had bent my front a-arm. I finally noticed the right rear tire had a slow leak and was down to about 15#. I aried it back up and it drove perfect. The posi was causing some torque steer. I'm glad i didn't start messing with the alignment settings.