Front end alignment that hard?

[SilverMoose]

That's what I thought Pirate -air. The wheel should be straight from the got go then align adjustments from there,,but the old guy doing was adamant he was right and truck was wrong..I don't have the tools and/equipment to do this,,will have to take it back or find a better service place,,,FYI for and idea,,my rubicon had ability to center wheel by driver ,,used turn signals to indicate adjustments back and forth till straight,,once steering wheel was straight on position was set,,nice feature,,before being flamed,,do not want to go back to jeep,,jeep not better, not comparing apples to rockets launchers,,just saying ,,nice feature

 

[pirate air]

Yeah the new electronic steering racks take wheel centering to a different level. The raptor is still in the hydro assist age, but the design is simple and strong so it works pretty well for the application.

 

[whtrapta]

Specs look "ok" (not to my standards but I'm **** when it comes to alignments). The steering wheel wasn't centered when they made the final toe adjustment plain and simple.
You can do like whrapta said and adjust the tie rods evenly. The left will need to adjust in and right will need to adjust out. Personally I'd take it back to the deal because without the proper equipment, you really have no idea what your total toe is after you've adjusted the tie rod to get the steering wheel straight. In the perfect world the total toe would be the same if tie rods were adjusted evenly but unfortunately ford parts aren't machined perfectly, hence the reason each wheel is at +.08 degrees but yet the steering wheel is off...

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That's not an alignment. That's a toe set and whoever wrote that failed on one or two key items. When doing a real/professional alignment (or even toe set) the steering wheel is centered and you can either adjust individual toe off of live readings, or enter into a program such as "wintoe" which basically takes you step by step and has some other benefits that aren't worth going into. This is all done and calculated after you take into account thrust angle and occupancy weight. You never go back and adjust the steering wheel to center it after you've made the final toe adjustments, that's the whole point of centering it in the first place. If its off, you did something wrong, and you need to start the whole process over not just adjust the tie rods one way or another. Thats junk yard shit.

I got my wheel perfectly centered again by doing this.

 

[SilverMoose]

Whtrapta. Believe you did,I am just not that clever,,my job is to kill bad guys and break their toys,,lol,,keeping mine in one piece gets contracted out...lol.