straightenin’ up
A couple o jigs I made to do alignments. The one has the angle gauge on it (magnetic mount, hot swappable!) (and do you see how wet my driveway is?!?!? Thats ground seepage from the hill, coming up through the gravels.)
Not doing the alignment just yet,, Need to replace the Idler arm and Pitman arm, (the pitman arm is a real PITA too.) possibly the tie-rod ends, though I don’t think so. (hard to tell with the idler arm so seriously wanked.) You can see in that second picture just how bad her alignment is right now (and that’s mostly due to that idler arm Seriously, that thing is janked and only 2 years old.)
She steers straight, doesn’t pull, but that side is really really OFF,,, (camber is off on both, but its really taking a toll on the passenger side tire)
so thats the plan for this weekend. Straighten up the Buffalo.
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A little trick I learned when I sold equipment for SPx Corporation, you can improvise turn plates/skid plates by spraying WD40 liberally inside a garbage bag and putting it under the tire. You can’t do a caster sweep cause no angle indicators but for toe it works. It made for quick equipment demonstrations. I guess you could calculate the caster by using trigonometry and permanently inscribed marks on your jigs. They tried to teach us that in college but the Hunter machine pretty much put all that math out to pasture. Like 8 track tapes…
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February 26, 2026 at 10:06 pm
I have the same type analog angle gage, but sure do love my newer digital ones. Old school methods are still valid and work.
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February 27, 2026 at 6:03 am