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Customs any one in norcal know a shop that will do alignment on lowered vehicles

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by wagonwheel, Mar 28, 2014.

  1. wagonwheel
    Joined: Aug 15, 2010
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    wagonwheel
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    this could become an issue
     
  2. JEM
    Joined: Feb 6, 2007
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    JEM
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    A very cryptic remark.

    I use Joe, Dave, and the guys at Custom Alignment in Mountain View. They've got a fairly broad customer base between hotrodders and local Shelby Clubbers and Porsche Club, but like any business with legal liability over their heads they need to be careful wrenching on someone's basket case. And they're not cheap.

    Given the right equipment (it helps a lot to have a lift) a normal human can SWAG a decent alignment, go google 'trammel bar' and 'wixey angle gauge'.
     
  3. blowby
    Joined: Dec 27, 2012
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    blowby
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    from Nicasio Ca

    Yep. Get the tools and do it yourself. You can do your own alignment tuning, do your other cars..
     
  4. Dependable Tire & Brake in San Rafael.
     
  5. JEM
    Joined: Feb 6, 2007
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    JEM
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    I'll throw in one more suggestion that everyone who wrenches beyond oil changes will eventually find a use for a Wixey WR365, whether it's setting/checking ride height/rake angle (little bigger than a big pack of gum - like the look of a car? stick it to the bottom of the frame or rocker and voila! shimming a car up level on stands 'cause you don't have a frame table? Decently straight piece of tubing and it's painless) front-end caster/camber (camber's easy off the drum/hub face or across the rim, caster can be harder, but if you take the car to a shop and get it back with a computer printout that says +3 degrees, park it on your garage floor and measure a point on the spindle at +4.3 you now know the casting shape's adding +1.3 and you know what to shoot for in the future...)
     
    Last edited: Mar 28, 2014

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