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Posted by Chris Case [75.36.46.180] on Friday, October 19, 2012 at 22:35:07 :
In Reply to: Re: Lets discuss alignment posted by Kaegi [24.16.253.154] on Friday, October 19, 2012 at 18:43:27 :
My bro's truck, visiting here from CO. 10,000 miles and front tires pretty scuffed of inside.
I seemed more critical than I recall to measure at the same height too. The front was accessible at the center height, rear was not, so we measured it lower. Hmm, things didn't add up. So we tried again, this time measured the front at the same height as accessible at the rear. Camber was the prob, top leans out so same ht is necessity.
Radials need less, 1/16" was the standard instead of 1/8", back int he days of "RTS" susopension. "Radial Tuned Suspension" was merely less toe in needed because of less road resistance to pull the tires outward.
I don't know how critical the measurement is, rime vs tire inside vs tire center line. But some 'in' is required. I've been using the bulgy sidewalls of the tire since I stopped working at an alignment shop in 1981, and tires seem to last well enough. 100,000 miles on a set of TAs on an F150 circa 1991-95. (Rayon/rayon tires, nothing rides like those anymore.)