Daddio

What (if any) alternatives are there to using the Porsche tool 9171 (or aftermarket equivalent) to adjust the rear toe-in?

In other words, once the contro arm bolts are loosened, can the toe-in be adjusted slightly by tapping the control arm with a rubber mallet, levering it with a wood dowel, etc.?

Your suggestions appreciated!

horsepowerfarm

I have tried to do it without the tool with poor results and alot of wasted time.
Spend the $, it is worth every penny. You can set the rear toe in less than 5 min.

Sam Lin

You can ghetto it with a screwdriver in the adjustment hole, but it's so completely imprecise that you'll save time ordering and waiting for the proper tool.

Sam

Daddio

How about loosening the toe-in bolts, tapping the tire with a rubber mallet until the wheel is aligned (by string or tape measure trick), then re-tightening the bolts? Ghetto fo sho, but why wouldn't that work?

A long weekend is upon us, and getting the real tool will take almost a week.

Black Arrow

How much does this porsche tool cost? And where to get?

RedlineMan

Hey;

It's IMPOSSIBLE to do an alignment without the tool. It's a pain to do it WITH the tool! It's about $25US and available from many sources; SIR tools, Assenmacher Tool, Paragon Products, and many more I'm sure.

Find a good shop and pay them to do it. As said previously here, it is worth the price. If you don't know what you're doing, you'll have a car with wacked alignment and you'll waste a lot of time getting it there. People always say that you can do string alignments at the track and so on. BULL. I'd like to see them try. It's a PITA even on an alignment rack!!!

Ski

If you don't get the tool...look at this way...you'll more than LOOSE the amount in tire wear if you get it wrong.

944Ecology

If you can't afford to maintain your car properly, sell it and buy a camry...

Buy the friggin' tool.

gb

BallVice

Well - I’m shipping a car tomorrow and had to do major adjustments and change out parts. Shop doesn’t have the tool. So - my be screwed. Was hopping for a different outcome.

931guru

Thanks for giving me the motivation to buy this tool Samstag Tools has it on ebay.

BallVice

Loosen the three rear bolts - remove the lower sway bar link - leave to top one on.

you can manipulate the entire assembly with the camber adjustment - you just have to be patient.

I got access to the car on the rack - here were my results.

note - we replaced a control arm in the build out of this car so we need to fine tune the adjustments on it later to fix the caster and camber -



top is start - bottom is the final result.