Help with my alignment??

[themaxx69]

First off I'm not sure what kind of lift this has. It has james duff dual shock mounts with extended radius arms, but the coils I was told looked like superlift or skyjacker, not sure.

I have 33's and they rub a bit on tight turns.

Problem is the front end. I had ball joints, bearings, steering linkage, u joints, brakes, rotors, and some other stuff replaced a couple years back. Since then the truck hasn't seen much driving. But, because I'm a dumbass, I never got it aligned after all that work and at some point the tires started tilting inward (see pictures). The passenger front was leaning in real bad and I found one of the bearings was destroyed and the rotor was toast because of that. Replaced both, but if you look at pics something isn't right.

I took it to get it aligned at Desert Rat(not going there again), and they wouldn't even align it. They gave me some bs about everything, but couldn't tell me why the front was tilted in so much. They said I needed tires, leaf springs, bushings, ball joints, etc. They said MAYBE moving the driver traction beam down to the lower bolt might help. They also said it needed alignment cams, but that those wouldn't correct the major tilt problem.

I took some pics and put them on photobucket. You can click this link or search themaxx69 in people on photobucket.

http://s263.photobucket.com/albums/ii121/themaxx69/


I used autozone ball joints, wondering if I should have got better ones.

Ohh, and when you lift the front end, it straightens out. Don't know if it's the ball joints or what. Also, even after I replaced all that stuff years ago, the front still tilted in a little. Alignment cams, bolt position???

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[WisdoM]

Check out the tech library, lots of good info
http://www.therangerstation.com/tech_library/Alignment.html

 

[BlackBII]

Ha, moving the beam down to the lower bolt would worsen the situation....

It looks to me like your coils are sagging/too short. You could try the eccentric camber bushings, to try to get it back to spec, but I personally would try some coil spacers/washers or longer coils.

 

[Shran]

I will second longer coils and definitely not moving the beam.

 

[themaxx69]

So, nothing else would cause it to tilt in that bad?

 

[sfwjesse]

The camber bushings on their worst case setting would probably not even cause it to look that bad. That looks like someone put in drop brackets without using longer coils or something.

 

[themaxx69]

any clue as to how I find what size spring I need?

 

[Shran]

Measure the ones you have now, and figure out how much lift you are supposed to get out of the brackets you have...then order from there.

 

[themaxx69]

I dont know what brakets are on there. Can I measure something on bracket or are there some markings which would indicate the lift?

 

[Shran]

Take some good pics...somebody here will be able to identify them.

 

[BlackBII]

I would guess Skyjacker or Superlift, given there are two holes...

One for a 4 inch coils, the other for 6 inch coils.

Your truck is a supercab, and people with 6in coils have said that using the 4in holes works out nicely, if Skyjacker. If Superlift, which are a lot stiffer, the 6in (really like 5.5) coils work with the 6in hole.

 

[themaxx69]

So, while I'm waiting to hear back from skyjacker, I'm guessing the coils are probably 4in and I just need 6in coils?

 

[themaxx69]

I forgot. If they are 4in coils, would the reason the camber is so bad be the 33in tires? Isn't that lift only for 31" or 32"?

 

[Shran]

Well you can run whatever size tires you want... that is kind of irrelevant. Too short of coils will make the axle beams tilt up towards the wheel wells.

 

[themaxx69]

Skyjacker said it look like their bracket. So, if the beam is set in the 4in lift hole, how could the camber be so bad? Can the coils sag that much? I got the measurements from skyjacker, so I'll see what coil is on there, hopefully.