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What a difference driving can be with a simple front wheel alignment.
My 75 has always handled very sensitive. After watching a video from “Problem Solver Garage” on the tube, I saw a simple technique of checking your toe-in.
I found where I was out 1/4” where the specs I found show 1/32-3/32 IN.
I decided to give it a try and made up a measuring board, made the adjustments and, wow! My car drives so much better when the toe-in is on spec.
Didn’t cost a dime.
I will eventually get a professional alignment, but until then, I am riding much better.
I'll tell you what I have learned over the years. That at home toe adjustment you just did? Leave it alone! You'll take it to a shop and some over worked underpaid mechanic will do a hurry up job setting up the heads on his alignment machine. Then totally screw the pooch on your alignment, charge you big money, hand you a spec sheet that isn't even close as they did a hurry up job just putting the heads on your wheels. And then argue with you if you bring it back complaining.
Only YOU love your car as much as you do!
Same here...If it feels good-leave it alone.
If you notice a wear pattern developing on a tire- adjust the Toe on that tire...
then adjust the Toe on the other tire by measuring from the tire tread you just adjusted across to the other tire tread (front of tire and rear of tire).
Same method for the rear wheels on a Corvette (Rear wheel toe out of adjustment will affect the steering also)
What a difference driving can be with a simple front wheel alignment.
My 75 has always handled very sensitive. After watching a video from “Problem Solver Garage” on the tube, I saw a simple technique of checking your toe-in.
I found where I was out 1/4” where the specs I found show 1/32-3/32 IN.
I decided to give it a try and made up a measuring board, made the adjustments and, wow! My car drives so much better when the toe-in is on spec.
Didn’t cost a dime.
I will eventually get a professional alignment, but until then, I am riding much better.
I’ve watched every one of Problem Solver Garage’s Vette videos, some 2 or 3 times. I’ve also posted some of his vids here when others were looking for technical advice. He covers quite a bit in his vids. While he is more of a make it work without always buying parts guy, another youtuber that really explains stuff well/has good video/camera placement is The Driveway. He is pretty much buying everything new though, so between those 2 guys there is a ton of knowledge in their vids.
What a difference driving can be with a simple front wheel alignment.
My 75 has always handled very sensitive. After watching a video from “Problem Solver Garage” on the tube, I saw a simple technique of checking your toe-in.
I found where I was out 1/4” where the specs I found show 1/32-3/32 IN.
I decided to give it a try and made up a measuring board, made the adjustments and, wow! My car drives so much better when the toe-in is on spec.
Didn’t cost a dime.
I will eventually get a professional alignment, but until then, I am riding much better.
DIY Alignment for the C3 is better than what most professional's do for C3 corvette's.
Here is my method and verified by professional alignment machine.
So once you do your DIY alignment. (learning process) , take the car for "measurements only" to your alignment shop. Once they give you the measurement's, see if you can measure the same, (verify your process).
This process is how I learned that string alignments are not reliable, and came to the procedure I now use. Worth the time and effort if you need to align often. ( I used my car for track days )
Very detailed instructions, Cagotzmann. If I dig deeper into the camber/caster and rear wheel toe, I will follow that guide. Thanks.
I only drive Miss Daisy around with mine. Nothing extreme. However, it is nice to feel in control of the steering.
I made up a much simpler (and less precise) board similar to the Problem Solver video method using my 100’ tape, a 1x7 shelving board I had from another project, and a carpenter’s square.
I duct-taped the measuring tape to the farthest edge of the board, wedged the board under the tire, then took measurements up to the molding seam of my new tires on the front side, then the back side of the tire. I then calculated the distance between the seams and made adjustments accordingly.
Pretty low tech stuff. But I am a pretty low IQ guy.
I was able to reach under to each tie rod clamp without needing to jack. Took me four adjustments/test drives to get the targeted toe-in. Each adjustment, I could feel the difference in driving improvement as I got closer. I now sit at 1/16” Toe In. Feels great. No pulling.
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