Well After getting insulted by the girl at the Firestone counter for not properly rebuilding my front end, they told me they couldn't align my 4runner because the Pitman arm was off a little and wanted 95 dollars to do it( I have the lifetime alignment, and this is the third attempt to align it. Finally a tech caught what was going on because I honestly couldnt). I put it on a couple teeth off(which is the only thing I did wrong, which was why I was pretty offended).
They didn't say anything besides that. It is aligned a little now, but in sharp turns the inner tie rod end on the drivers side hits my cross member. How to I go about realigning my steering linkage? I personally thought that was what an alignment tech should do as part of an aligment, but I could be wrong. Center the steering wheel and eye ball it?

Thank you, rant over

After a little bit of googeling, I learned a little about doing this, but should my pitman arm turned at all or be perfectly straight with my gear box?

 

Mine is straight out with the wheels straight. I recently replaced my Pitman arm and I am almost certain that my new arm had an alignment mark to line up with the one on the gear box shaft.

 

thanks. I'll have to double look to see if I can see them. and your truck is in pretty good alignment? witht eh pitman arm ppointing straight at the driver you mean?

 

Pitman arm should have a mark on bottom for center. So does the steering box sector shaft. Line em up.

It's that easy.

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i have never found that mark on yotas

 

Then you've been looking in the wrong place.

http://www.4x4wire.com/forums/showth...11&page=0&vc=1

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a picture worth millions words,im blind,but no so blind cause i align mine bye "eye" and looking the marks it was perfect