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Hot Rods Front end alinment on a 54 Chevy

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by FRANK GRELLE, Sep 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM.

  1. FRANK GRELLE
    Joined: Oct 15, 2018
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    FRANK GRELLE
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    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
     
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  2. Mr48chev
    Joined: Dec 28, 2007
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    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.
     
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  3. 325w
    Joined: Feb 18, 2008
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    325w
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    Toe done with worn parts. Now it should be back close to spec. Needs at least toe checked.
     

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