Tonight on Grassroots Motorsports LIVE!: DIY Alignments at Home

In reply to JG Pasterjak :

Of course you do it 6 weeks after it kicked our behind getting ready for the Challenge.  I'll be watching cause I didn't like getting my behind kicked.

AnthonyGS said:

Can we get a mig welding for newbies sometime in the near future?  Advice on equipment, how to practice, a few demonstrations (a lot like the TIG episode). 

 

 

Yeah we can do that. Maybe we'll do MIG and flux core and stick one night.

I'll get it on our schedule. Thanks for the suggestion.

The Lotus Esprit shop manual has a very thorough DIY string alignment section.

Looking forward to this one!

A way to one man check toe accurately is my struggle. And repeatable caster process. But camber is easy with my digital angle finder!

Hopefully i can stay awake for tonights episode. Or find a way to watch it after the fact. 

Years ago, HF sold a toe gauge.  It has a lever that pivots and measures in 1/64ths of an inch.  That's what I use for toe.  For camber, I use a Fastrax camber gauge.  I don't bother with castor.

And just a bump since we go live in a few minutes. See everyone at 9 p.m. Eastern tonight.

And here's the YouTube feed.

I have a question, you measured hub face to string front and made them equal then measured rear and made it equal but how do you know you don't have a trapezoid string around the car? For example front track is different than rear?  I was told to extend the strings past the car front and rear and then make sure the total distance between the strings was the same front and rear in addition to the distance hub faces to string. 

^Good point, most production cars are not perfectly rectangular suspension-wise from the factory. When production-based race cars are built, they usually have a frame straightening done before work starts on them for this reason.