Thanks for the video. Pretty straight forward. I called the shop where I had the cam kit installed and asked why they only installed the kit on the front portion of the A- arm. They said they only need to adjust the front to get it within spec for the alignment.
I would think that both front and back would need to be adjusted to do it right.
Here are my current settings:
Your camber is still pretty high/negative, specially on the left side. The caster is also pretty high/positive but really that won't hurt anything, you could put a kit in the rears and bring both lower front control arms rear attachments in towards the chassis. That would bring the camber in and use up some extra caster. I would do a rear kit and adjust it if it was my truck, at the very least watch the front tire inside wear.
Is there any reason on the third perch, w cam kits, that a shop shouldn't be able to align it?
I have taken it to three places. The first one just took my money and I don't think did a damn thing. The second place didn't wanna do it because the entire truck was a lil lower on the driver side (diff post others have it and is within Fords spec so not an issue, other than pissing me off after I noticed it). The third place couldn't do it without the cam kit. Installed it and aligned it, but they couldn't get it just right. I really started thinking that even with the cam kit it couldn't happen.
On the third perch it is harder to get the truck alignment "ideal", but a competent shop should be able to get it close/decent. On the third perch getting the caster and camber "ideal" is hard because you start to run out of adjustment, alignment cam kit or not. That's when an after market upper control arm with a little bit of built in positive caster comes into play. Did the last place happen to give you a print off?
So I'm still having a issue with my 2012 SCrew alignment, I have taken it to the dealer twice and both times they have set it to within specs. I have cupping on the outside edge and always have the steering wheel cranked to the left because of the road crown, its like there is no on center feel at all almost play in the steering. I drove my Brothers 2010 Raptor Scab and it is perfect with nice on center feel and tight, and he beats the hell out of his truck. I haven't even taken the truck off road yet, I'm having enough alignment problems just driving back and forth to work, any one have any recommendation's on this issue?
Sounds like a toe adjustment issue causing the tire cupping, and possibly low positive caster causing the lack of steering wheel returnability and road crown tracking. Hate to sound like a broken record, but did you get a print off? It's the only thing I can really go off to help diagnose the problem. If you can find an alignment shop to work with you, have them set the total toe slightly positive, caster 4.0*ish positive (both sides) and camber 0*-.4* negative both sides). With it set similar to this, you should have no issues unless there's a mechanical problem with the truck. That above is where I keep my truck and I get very good tire wear and it takes a lot of road crown to sway my truck.