PERFECT diy front end alignment SIMPLE tools
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- Опубліковано 3 січ 2020
- If your car is pulling to the left or right and if you enjoy working on cars, you can align your car perfectly with very simple tools. You don’t need lasers and fancy expensive stuff. Some kite string and some soup cans can get your car going in the right direction. You’ve got to understand how to line everything up, then you just take your time until it’s right. **************************************************
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Finally! Answered all my questions, showed visuals while explaining not just verbally explaining, and all in less than 5 mins 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Great video. All the info, none of the filler. I really wish more UA-cam tutorials followed this format.
Way better then a tape measure, i bet the digital calipers give it a super accurate measurement
I would use this method after replacing something on the steering components so i can get to the garage and get it checked . Tyres are expensive and a couple of degrees off could burn through a pair of fronts in no time. I bet you arent far off though
Sometimes I use sockets but in this case I'm going to use a "Tin can"
THANK-YOU SIR, VERY WELL EXPLAINED, NICE JOB !!
Awesome vid! Thanks!!
I would imagine putting a baking try under the front wooden blocks would help with turning the wheels easier when adjusting.
Not all cars have the same distance between wheels, as per my Z4. You need to run two parallel strings. I use two strips of 2 x 4 with strings set at equal distance, then placed equally between front and rear wheel centres.
You can also just figure out the difference in track width and compensate in order to make lines parallel. For example, strings might be 100mm off of rear center caps but only 92.5mm off of front center caps.
excellent
thanks
awesome!
Toe in setting depends on the car's specifications. Toyota Camry calls for zero toe in the front and slight toe in for rear wheels. The theory being that front drive cars when under power will toe in slightly, while rear drive vehicles would toe out under power, so for rear drive cars a slight toe in of the front wheels would be correct. It's best to look up the specs for your vehicle.
This will get you close if the contact points on your rim create a plane exactly orthogonal to the axis of rotation of the bearing... but really to get it accurate you need to do wheel rim runout compensation.
Exellent instruction !
excellent video, I fix cars but didn't know how to do a wheel alignment.
Do you have a video that can help me doing a compete diy full suspension replacement and 4 wheel alignment on my 17 Nissan Pathfinder s model 4wd?
Just replaced both sides control arms and all. Jumped in and my steering wheel was doing a hard right but I was going straight down the road😅. Instantly turned around went home and found this video.
HELLO. NICE VIDEO. ONE QUESTION. HOW TO COMPENSATE A FRONT WHEELS TO MAKE A STEERING WHEEL STRAIGHT AS ALMOST EVERY ROAD HAS A CAMBER TO THE RIGHT AND STEERING ALWAYS SLIGHTLY OFF TO THE RIGHT BECAUSE THE ROAD CAMBER. THANKS
Hate to say it, but gotta say it: its a rare day, a super rare day to EVER use a crescent wrench.
It's even worse to use a crescent for known super tight bolts/nuts. They are a problem waiting to happen.
I literally use my crescents more for an aluminum bending jig than anything else.
Totally agree, because the nut can only be accessed with an open end wrench, which is awful, The crescent wrench actually fit tighter than any of my metric or standard American for whatever reason. 👍
Kinda makes you want a mess a' flapjacks or grits. Or a whole slop ducket of griddle biscuits n a half rack a' butter dimple pickle muffins.
I'd fuck up a stack of dimple pickle muffins my ninja.
Pulling Left/Right it typically a "bad" tire. Instead of the tire being flat across the treads, one could be angled slightly (cone shaped). In this case swap your front tires and see if it now pulls to the opposite direction. For toe in, I typically use a tape measure to measure across the rear of the tire then measure across the front. The front of the tire should be toed in very slightly to not at all.
Awsome😊
Did you establish a box? What if the rear tires a fixed narrower than the front?
Mark Vermeulen that’s why your making a parallel line from your centre.
@@angelokarantonis7509 How would you establish a center line that is useable? Hang a plume line under the car and then use straight edge / board against the front tire exterior to set an equal distance from center string?
The string approach will have some margin of error.
@@angelokarantonis7509you really aren't making a parallel line from the centerline of the vehicle using the string method. The string method assumes that the wheels are the same distance from the vehicle centerline on each axle. This is not always true though.
Toe in is for rear wheel drive vehicles.
when you say 1/16 toe in do you mean from the centre of the wheel? so 1/8 from front of rim to back?
or 1/16 difference from front of rim to back?
front of tire has to toe in 1/16
Good question.
The difference of the measurement between the rear of the tire and the front tire is toe.
Unless everything is close, checking one side is not very accurate. At best, it is enough to get to a shop for proper alignment.
Well, this just confirmed that I’ll just continue paying someone to do it. Lol
How can you possibly verify that the string is true?
how to do camber
Brilliant. Thanks for the video. Is it the same for rear wheel drive cars ?
yes
No, for rear wheel drive cars the front alignment has to be towed in
Perfect
This method only works if your axle widths are both the same
just offset the wire
@@boazruis913 to what? The two axles act as a datum
@@bonkeydollocks1879 if one wheel hub is say 1 cm further out you just add 1cm to the distance to the second hub, so for example the wire to hub distance at the rear axle is 10cm and at the front its 11cm.
@@boazruis913 adds more discrepancies to the overhaul accuracy in my opinion but I get the idea
no shit sherlock, thats common sense that didnt need mentioned, but I guess it did for you!
1/16 of an inch... Eh, it would be much easier (and maybe more preside) measuring in millimeters (mm).
What is meant by "toe in"?
Toe in= / toe out= \
Like a pigeon toed persons feet
Look down at your toe and move it in. It's not straight anymore?
Its tow out for front wheel drive, and it isn't supposed to be perfect each side, it's what ever makes the car drive straight.
Too fast, too little details,; I didn't understand much, but thanks for your time.....
You are assuming the front and rear axles are the same length. Most cars are not. This method doesn’t work.
Error. You will tie yourself in knots and scrub your tyres if you have dissimilar track front and back. you must get the strings/fishing line parallel first. Then measure to the rims...
he did
Wrong. All front tires are off track
So where does the jack stands go
If you have to ask that you should not be doing this, this is not for some average Joe that’s never done something like this it’s more for the experience old dogs
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Excellent & very helpful but please don’t use adjustable spanner’s. They are for amateur plumbers, not amateur mechanic’s.
I was going to use a pipe wrench because that's what I have. Simple tools never means the right tools.
It's OK as long as you use a METRIC crescent wrench.
U didn't that ruler. Sometime u have to adjust rear duh
Toe setting ONLY! NOT alignment.
I did this and drove over the cat🤦🏻
😝😛😜
That is not front end alignment. Only toe.
Some newer cars only have a toe adjustment anymore. So in theory thats all you need to do.
So basically if the rear distance between wheels are different or one or both rears are out of alignment you are fucking everything up at the front
WRONG, PAY ATTENTION NEXT TIME
If the rear wheels aren't aligned, your bearings are shot and you have bigger problems. They don't turn, they should be constantly aligned.
This is why you establish parallel strings on both sides. Then the difference between front and rear width doesn’t matter
@@dickjohnson5025 And BINGO was his name-o!
I’m one minute into your video and it’s wrong information. As a mechanic and tester I can tell you that the vast majority of rear wheel drive cars are set toe in as when the vehicle starts moving the front wheels are pushed outward.
But on a front wheel drive car the setting is usually toe out as when the front wheels start spinning the forces draw them inward.
Not only that but it isn’t just the alignment between the front and rear wheels which is set, the alignment of the front wheels together is also set toe in/out.
Every individual vehicle has particular settings which are a balance between good handling and even tyre wear as you can’t have both perfect it just doesn’t work like that.
Also the settings each one has comes with an “acceptable range” rarely do they align perfectly especially on older cars. As long as the settings are within that range it’s acceptable as tyre wear will be ok, vehicle will run straight and the steering wheel will be straight also.
Seen countless at home alignment videos and most are utter trash which probably cause countless tyres to be destroyed.
WRONG
YOU DONT HAVE THE SLIGHTEST IDEA WTF YOURE TALKING ABOUT, PERIOD!
thanks, I now know real advice from a real mechanic, I have a front wheel drive, and need to do a wheel alignment myself, I was going to do 1/16 to in at the front of the rim, is this incorrect.
Small cars don’t have camber. They not supposed to go off only if u modify the vehicle
*laughs in miata*
Laughs in Saturn SC2
Hope you guys are looking over the line. And not from a distance. Put yo head up there over the line with one eye closed. I've used to do it like you are holding the measure. That doesn't work.
don't use crescent wrenches for anything , you can get a full set of both types of wrenches for next to nothing, and carry them around in a kit as easy as anything. I'm embarrassed for you
Where are you videos?
I used crescent wrench today change the center link and tierods
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@@Deeznuts84356 cool deal, I used one for a hammer , then as a one time use reverse boomerang
Get r done. Never tried the boomerang i might try it
Bro this is not the right way of alignment becoz mostly cars have different front and rear track width. On the geometric center line method is the right way.
Share your knowledge on the subject. Make a video of the right way.
Use your brain...
This is why you establish parallel lines on both sides of the car
Yes, this is the correct way of doing it and race car drivers do it every single day they don’t use a alignment machine they use a tape measure and a string line. How do you think they done all this alignment before machines come around and steering wells for Dad on that’s awful funny because I paid $120 to have a alignment done on my vehicle and I had to straighten it out because the steering wheel was off by a quarter of an inch I had to get my jackstands and do a string line alignment and it is perfect better than our machine
*Wears tires horribly because he refused to pay a shop $100 lol
This is typically used as a method after doing maintenance on your own vehicle. This is just to get the alignment close enough to be able to take it to a tire shop for the alignment.
@@raptorcustomembroidery3927 why bother just take it to a shop a few miles won't hurt
@@paintballalienindy09 it depends on how close you are to a tire shop and how far out the alignment is. If it's severe enough it can be extremely dangerous to drive.
Paying people for something you can do with basic knowledge and tools.... This guy couldn't have made it simpler.
Great video!
@@raptorcustomembroidery3927 tyre shops are useless though
I have better way.
Adjust the tie rod a little. Drive down the road. If it isn't right, crawl under and adjust it again...maybe do the other side...jus cuz. Keep doing that till it goes straight. It might take a few dozen miles.
Oh...and buy cheap Chinese tires in case it doesn't work.
I followed this to a T. ITS WAYYYYYYY OFF.