Hot Rods Front end alinment on a 54 Chevy

Hay guys looking for some thoughts here , I just replaced my center link on my 54 ,150,and I noticed the front tires are showing some toe wear on the insides of the tires , The tires are 9 years old and need to be replaced anyway,I had a aliment done on the car about 10 yrs ago (ya been a wile).The shop used the stock specs at the time even though the car had 215/70R15 Redials on it .The current tires are cheap Gardsmans 215/70r14,The car is a budget build,So I just used good ,cheap tires on it and never had a problem.What I am wondering is should I have the shop set the aliment to a different spec. for better performance and tire wear when I get the new tires ? I did read somewhere that it should have 0 _+ Toe ,And all the other specs are the same as stock. The front end is stock with drums,Manual steering and the car dose have a small block ,If that makes a difference do to weight .TIA

 

No but it is well past time to at least have the alignment checked.

Something to consider is studying the wear pattern of the tires to figure out what caused the wear.
I don't have the photos I took a few years ago showing different tire wear patterns but if the tire is just worn on the inside (or outside) tread and there is no other wear pattern That is usually excess camber. If you slide your fingers across the tread sidways in both directions and the tread looks and feels feathered to one side that is excess toe in or toe out pushing the tread in that direction and wearing the side of the tread. If it has cupped out spots around the tread that can be out of balance or bad shocks.

 

Toe done with worn parts. Now it should be back close to spec. Needs at least toe checked.

 

Lots of clips on Youtube on do-it-yourself wheel alignment. I have been doing my own for a few years now, as most "wheel alignment" shops here won't even look at a kingpin, beam or ball joint front end, especially if it has been transplanted from another car.

 

I put front shocks on it about 5 yrs ago just after covid,And they don't have much more then a couple
thousand miles on them ,And thinking back I did replace the passenger tie rod ,Witch is the solid
non-adjustable rod,But thinking about it now it may not be perfect (I was always told when doing the solid rod there was no need to aline the front end.) Mr48chev ,I did look for feathering and there was a little on the drives side tire but passenger one was ok ,I have some tire knowledge from my dad ,He worked for Armstrong tire in the 60s and 70s, I am gonna find a shop that can do the alignment,There are a couple I have herd were good with the classics ,I just wanted thoughts one the situation being the tires are different from factory ,Before I went out and had it done. Thanks for the input, Guys