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Old 05-21-2008 | 01:56 AM
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Originally Posted by chipmonk
was the alignment done at an off road shop that knows how to align lifted trucks, or at the dealership or a front end/tire shop that mostly does stock vehicles? by dead on, do you mean in the green? if you do a search, you can find lots of vehicles that had handling issues that were alignment related, even with toe and caster in the green. also, level kits can exaggerate the 1" side to side tolerances that dodge allows for, and can exaggerate the differences in the driver's side/passenger side coil springs, but these are things that already exist, and are not created by the level kit. here's a thread where XLR8R (mike) talks about some alignment specs
https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...d.php?t=204997
Yes, it was done by an alignment shop that does every kind of vehicle on the road from small trucks and cars all the way up to semi trucks. They also specialize in lowered and lifted vehicles. Yes, I mean dead on, meaning in the green all the way with stock wheels and tires. The truck was perfect before the leveling kit. We have a few guys in our club that have the same issues after the leveling kits. So, if all our trucks drove straight as a arrow before the leveling kits, how could it be anything else now? Again, none of the trucks are bad enough to complain about, but they by far don't drive like they did new. We are all going for the look, so nothing else really matters.
Old 05-21-2008 | 03:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Performance
Yes, it was done by an alignment shop that does every kind of vehicle on the road from small trucks and cars all the way up to semi trucks. They also specialize in lowered and lifted vehicles. Yes, I mean dead on, meaning in the green all the way with stock wheels and tires. The truck was perfect before the leveling kit. We have a few guys in our club that have the same issues after the leveling kits. So, if all our trucks drove straight as a arrow before the leveling kits, how could it be anything else now? Again, none of the trucks are bad enough to complain about, but they by far don't drive like they did new. We are all going for the look, so nothing else really matters.
in mike's (XLR8R) post, he gives some alignment specs that are more specific than just 'in the green'. having your alignment 'in the green' is usually fine for stock, but once you start modding (lift, tires, etc.) certain things become exaggerated (following crown in road, side to side variance in truck, difference in driver's side/pass. side springs), so just being 'in the green' is not always enough.
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