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Do you need an alignment?
Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:39 AM
Do you need an alignment after you put in lowering springs? I'm going to be putting on gold lines this weekend and i just wanted to know. Thanks

Re: Do you need an alignment?
Wednesday, May 04, 2005 5:42 AM
Yes.



Re: Do you need an alignment?
Wednesday, May 04, 2005 6:16 AM
yes and you will need one when you do it again to put on struts if you are not doing in now.


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Re: Do you need an alignment?
Wednesday, May 04, 2005 7:47 AM
Yes... I lowered 2 weeks ago with the Pro-kit & AGX's. Thought my alignment was fine because the car wasn't pulling to eather side. This past Saturday i had my best Friends's Dad's shop check the alighment just so kicks & giggles... turned out my Caster on the Driver side was off by .5 degrees

So, yeah, do an alighment.





Re: Do you need an alignment?
Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:03 AM
Just because the car doesn't pull one way or the other doesn't mean your alignment is ok. If both sides are out by roughly the same amount, it won't pull but you'll chew through tires like mad.





Re: Do you need an alignment?
Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:21 AM
DeadBob wrote:Yes... I lowered 2 weeks ago with the Pro-kit & AGX's. Thought my alignment was fine because the car wasn't pulling to eather side. This past Saturday i had my best Friends's Dad's shop check the alighment just so kicks & giggles... turned out my Caster on the Driver side was off by .5 degrees

So, yeah, do an alighment.


You mean camber? Caster isn't adjustable.



Re: Do you need an alignment?
Wednesday, May 04, 2005 9:15 AM
Meh, the only one that will chew tires like mad is toe.

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Re: Do you need an alignment?
Wednesday, May 04, 2005 7:48 PM
Caster doesn't affect ur tire wear, only toe, and camber, Gm doesn't provide a caster adjustment for the jbody's but if it is way out of alignment u can elongate the 3 holes on the top strut mount in order to bring it into spec. Also u don't need to buy an alignment kit doesn't work ne way...just elongate the 2 holes at the bottom of the strut and that will allow u to adjust camber!!!!!


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