Your Raptor and It's Alignment
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I'd watch the inside tires for wear, especially the left front at 1.1- degrees of camber. Caster should make it favor a left hand pull, but with that much camber in the left tire it might balance it out. Total toe looks ok. Overall the numbers aren't horrible but personally if it was mine I'd make some adjustments across the board. The alignment machine or operator seems a little sketch considering the amount of movement between the initial alignment and the second one. Just by looking at the changes on the print out I doubt it's your truck that has the problem.
Well, I took it back for a 3rd time today and it is still pulling to the right. Time to find a new place to align the truck. They said the problem was with the tires now, I called BS and went back to the tire vendor and had them rotated just in case, and it still pulls to the right.
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Did they rotate side to side or front to back? The number indicate no right pull so something's strange for sure.
Discount Tire Rotated them back to front cross ways. They tires and wheels are only 1 day old :-(
After the new wheels and tires
Method NV all black 17x8.5
Toyo Open Country M/T 35 x 12.5 x 17
The only thing I noticed was the truck was wandering a bit. I took it first thing this morning for the alignment. The wandering stopped but pulls to the right.
I am going to let a couple Raptor buddies with similar setups drive it in the morning to see if it is just me.
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Shouldn't be your tires then. If its a tire pull and you cross rotate them the pull either switches direction or decreases significantly. Sounds like it might just be botch alignment job.
SvtDon
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Had the same problem with my Toyo's on 35. Had ford do the alignment the first time which was a waste a money. They did it the digital computer way obviously and tried telling me my rear end was out of alignment because of my stage 4 Lol. I then said whatever you guys are idiots. Took it to a place that does of road trucks and watched him and *********** with him for the hour. He didn't do it the computer way. He said its sometimes hard to do a proper alignment with these big trucks and big tires. He did it the old fashion way. No computer no digital. Chalked out center line on tires and calipers a bar and some other stuff he used with out the computer shit. Took it for a quick drive to test and came back and made sure all was tight. Fixed! No more pulling to the right! Try to find and off road place or a guy that doesn't use the computer to align the truck. Couldn't be happier with mine finally
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The guys want to do a good job, but they rely on the computer to direct them. The whole wheel harness and laser guides barely fit. The truck hangs off the rack 3 inches either side. I just don't think their equipment was designed for a truck and tire/wheel combination this large. I have a lead on a guy that does the alignment the old way and will get with him on Monday hopefully.
SvtDon
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Good luck. I'm sure it will work
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In the 10 plus years that I probably performed several thousand alignments I never had issues using a computer aided alignment machine. And I aligned everything from school busses, to trailers, to rock crawlers, to track cars and everything in between. It's just another type of measuring tool, and like everything else in the world, it only works as well as the person behind it and the condition its in.
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