| Re: Performing Alignments
Alright fellows, I think I pretty much got it then. That inside bantering aside (which I'm not sure about getting all of that since I haven't read those books), I think I'll follow what you fellows suggest - eyeball it.
If I have it aligned and like it then I can construct datum points based on the setup. These will be useful provided things don't get whacked or knocked out of align. I can use string to measure, or even solid objects (I like this one, a go/nogo gauge) to adjust things.
My car got whacked recently and it was on the front fender. Unfortunately after my straightening and bondo work the fender was no quite where it used to be in an absolute reference to x,y,z coordinates in space to the rest of the car. My body work is, uhhh, well, it is race quality if one can call it that. So, it is really hard to tell what the front end is doing right now.
I'll get it aligned and make some data points. But, one of those camber gauges still seems like a useful tool for relative low money. Even lower money would be for me to make a hub jig with a bubble level attached to it and some scribe marks. I don't care about "absolute -2.38 degrees camber", as long as "on scribed mark #4 I like the handling".
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