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Old Apr 14, 2016 | 12:19 PM
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headcheck regarding alignment

First thing, my truck has light racing adjustable UCAs.

Symptoms: made an emergency drive without setting alignment after tie rod and LBJ installs. Squirrelly as hell and producing a nasty moaning drone. I can see that the camber is off on the p-side, though not sure exactly how that happened. Steering response feels fine, but road response is terrible.

P-side UCA BJ was set further inboard than d-side when I installed them because I had to do that to get a decent driveway alignment (actually, a *very* good alignment). But camber is off in such a way that, if I wanted to utilize the UBJ it would need to go further inboard--which I don't want.

So, questions:

What's that noise?

How should I proceed with camber if I want to set p-side UBJ further outboard? (I don't like things being so asymmetrical) I'm guessing that it would be a lot of cranking on those cam bolts.
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Old Apr 14, 2016 | 02:11 PM
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Good lord. Poor old yotatech is getting sparse.

Anyhoo. I fixed the toe and camber to something close to spec. Will test drive tomorrow. If that eliminates "the noise," then yay!

Still don't understand how the camber was thrown off by the work I did. I hate alignment.
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Old Apr 14, 2016 | 02:37 PM
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I had faith you'd figure it out on your own.

And yes, the noise was probably too much toe-in/out.
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Old Apr 15, 2016 | 08:53 AM
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Originally Posted by MudHippy
I had faith you'd figure it out on your own.

And yes, the noise was probably too much toe-in/out.
Hey, I appreciate it (especially because it's totally sincere)!
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Old Apr 16, 2016 | 05:07 AM
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All you can do is guess and drive it to an alignment shop to get it right. You have pretty sensitive camber adjustment with those UCA's positioned so high so the job is not as straight forward as it was.
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