Crude Home Alignment - it works ...
05-24-2006, 09:09 PM
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Crude Home Alignment - it works ...
... at least, well enough to get you to an alignment shop.
I planned pulling apart the front suspension of the '80 - spindles, ball joints, the works .... so all alignment settings would be lost. Thinking of a quick and dirty way to save the basic settings, recalled the trick Andrew ( and maybe others) posted previously.
This was to reverse mount a spare rotor over the existing rotor & hub: with a laser level glued to the outer rotor, shoot vertical and horizontal lines to create reference points on which to reassemble the suspension. This being a low tech operation
, there was no laser level lying around .. 
.... but a perfectly good 4 ft carpenters level was nearby. So .......
Strips of masking tape were stuck to the floor and the hoist arm: pressing the level against the rotor, the vertical & horizontal reference points were drawn on the tapes as a 'before' point - as in the pics. With new spindles, etc installed, the eccentrics were cranked until the level nestled into the prior marks. Ergo, the 'after' = the 'before" - at least as close as I could get it.
The result was a very close approximation to spec alignment, which made for a tire saving ride to resettle the suspension on the way to the Hunter DSP400 rack.
BTW, the last pic is for anyone frustrated in separating or reassembling any kind of ball joint: it really helps to have another jack to force things together to keep the stud from spinning as the nut is turned.
I planned pulling apart the front suspension of the '80 - spindles, ball joints, the works .... so all alignment settings would be lost. Thinking of a quick and dirty way to save the basic settings, recalled the trick Andrew ( and maybe others) posted previously.
This was to reverse mount a spare rotor over the existing rotor & hub: with a laser level glued to the outer rotor, shoot vertical and horizontal lines to create reference points on which to reassemble the suspension. This being a low tech operation
, there was no laser level lying around .. .... but a perfectly good 4 ft carpenters level was nearby. So .......Strips of masking tape were stuck to the floor and the hoist arm: pressing the level against the rotor, the vertical & horizontal reference points were drawn on the tapes as a 'before' point - as in the pics. With new spindles, etc installed, the eccentrics were cranked until the level nestled into the prior marks. Ergo, the 'after' = the 'before" - at least as close as I could get it.
The result was a very close approximation to spec alignment, which made for a tire saving ride to resettle the suspension on the way to the Hunter DSP400 rack.
BTW, the last pic is for anyone frustrated in separating or reassembling any kind of ball joint: it really helps to have another jack to force things together to keep the stud from spinning as the nut is turned.
05-24-2006, 09:13 PM
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Pull the other one, mate.
You just wanted to post more pics of your new lift!
You just wanted to post more pics of your new lift!
