Your Raptor and It's Alignment

[pirate air]

Looks good. I figured the axle just needed to be squared up under the truck. The housing has some tolerance for camber and toe. You'll see a lot of rear end housings have a very slight amount of toe and sometimes camber to help the vehicle track straight. It sounds crazy but its there, albeit very slight. How does it drive?

 

[AZEngineer]

Looks good. I figured the axle just needed to be squared up under the truck. The housing has some tolerance for camber and toe. You'll see a lot of rear end housings have a very slight amount of toe and sometimes camber to help the vehicle track straight. It sounds crazy but its there, albeit very slight. How does it drive?

I just drove 5 miles home but there is no drift and the wheel is centered. It also tracks if I let go of the wheel. I'll know more about the feel and turn in after the weekend. Should I take it to a highly recommended shop to get it closer to the ideal values posted here or is this close enough for ideal handling?

 

[pirate air]

I just drove 5 miles home but there is no drift and the wheel is centered. It also tracks if I let go of the wheel. I'll know more about the feel and turn in after the weekend. Should I take it to a highly recommended shop to get it closer to the ideal values posted here or is this close enough for ideal handling?

It should be close enough all though i noticed the right side shows -.9 degrees camber which will most likely develop a little inside tire wear over time. If it was mine I'd get that down a little (closer to -.4) but everything else looks pretty good. They probably set the right side a little heavier on caster and negative camber to compensate for road crown.

 

[ktm505sx]

I have not align my truck since i did mid perch with swaybar off.

 

[Raptor911]

There are a lot guys here that do a midperch and never do an alignment and they say it drives fine. Then a few months later they notice tire wear and take it in for an alignment and it's way off.

Does this statement mean anything to you >> "You just don't know what you don't know".

At the end of the day, my bet is that "Pirate Air" knows his shit and that YOU sir just don't know what you don't know.

I have not align my truck since i did mid perch with swaybar off.

 

[khcdave]

guys, when you change the ride hieght the truck needs to be aligned bottom line. Now with that said you can choose not to and wear your tires prematurly if you want to. If you look at AZengineer's alighment spec sheet its a good example of the toe being out of spec after the mid pearch adjustment.

His numbers look good. If he had cams or adjustable upper arms I would a slight bit more camber in the driver side for tire tucking purposes off road. .06- 1.0 is where i put the camber- but not needed really. Other wise they look great and the thrust angle looks good.

 

[ktm505sx]

There are a lot guys here that do a midperch and never do an alignment and they say it drives fine. Then a few months later they notice tire wear and take it in for an alignment and it's way off.

Does this statement mean anything to you >> "You just don't know what you don't know".

At the end of the day, my bet is that "Pirate Air" knows his shit and that YOU sir just don't know what you don't know.

Take it easy dude, i m into de aligment too, only thing i have not taken my truck to the shop for aligment, but i will prob next week.
I will be doing that because of the strees at pivot point, my father's raptor that has mid perch with -12 offset wheels, alignment was done already.

 

[fletch74]

At the end of the day, my bet is that "Pirate Air" knows his shit and that YOU sir just don't know what you don't know.[/QUOTE]

Pirate Air doesn't know what he is doing he just uses big words to make it look that way, lol.

 

[ktm505sx]

At the end of the day, my bet is that "Pirate Air" knows his shit and that YOU sir just don't know what you don't know.

Pirate Air doesn't know what he is doing he just uses big words to make it look that way, lol.[/QUOTE]

I did not mean write up was bad, what i meant was there was too much info( a good info), when someone is looking only for simple numbers for the aligment sheet to copy on his truck. Some people are too lazy to read through all that info that isnt bad, when you are only looking for a couple of number for the aligment.

When i sent my father's truck, i just sent it to align that's it. Not special camber or caster adjustment for the truck

 

[pirate air]

At the end of the day, my bet is that "Pirate Air" knows his shit and that YOU sir just don't know what you don't know.

Pirate Air doesn't know what he is doing he just uses big words to make it look that way, lol.[/QUOTE]

Lol, damn!