How To Do Your Own Alignment

Baldy · 2005-03-25 18:54:28

DIY alignment (http://corner-carvers.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=13211&highlight=alignment+and+diy)

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03-25-2005, 12:54 PM

Baldy

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DIY alignment

03-26-2005, 12:18 AM

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neat! thanks!

03-26-2005, 09:10 AM

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Nice writeup. I think I will go home today and double check my stuff using that method.

03-26-2005, 03:43 PM

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An alignment is only $45 bucks, and all I have to do other than that is drop the car off. Why go to all the trouble to do-it yourself?

03-26-2005, 10:13 PM

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That was a pretty good post. It's 125 bucks on avg for an alignment + tax. So to me DIY is worth while. Now if only there was a way of DIY corner weighting. I have contemplated on making a setup similar to this...

03-27-2005, 06:13 AM

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[quote name='Cheers!' date='Mar 27 2005, 05:12 AM']That was a pretty good post. It's 125 bucks on avg for an alignment + tax. So to me DIY is worth while. Now if only there was a way of DIY corner weighting. I have contemplated on making a setup similar to this...

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Took me a few seconds to figure out what the problem was. You could get 2 scales and put a piece of wood across and rest the wheel on that, then just get the average weight over the 2 scales, mind you that's even cutting it a bit close. I don't really have that problem, I can just put the scale directly under the wheel.

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