SPC 91000 Camber / Caster tool

Don't tell my Wife, but Purolator dropped off more tools for me today. I paid $140 to have the Bee aligned and it pulls right. The Dart goes straight, but it's not right either and needs an alignment. The Bird I need to check what it's set at before I rebuild the front suspension so it can be put back the same. After seeing Keepat's recent Charger post doing his own alignment, I splurged a whole $240 so I can do them myself. Out of the box for under 5 minutes and I know why the Bee pulls. A quick inaccurate check shows the left wheel camber is between -0.25* and 0 where it should be and the right wheel is at 1*+ or better. Meaning top of tire is leaning out, making her head for the weeds! Have two airplanes to get finished up and out of here and then it's back to car tinkering, or camp, which ever happens first...

If I make up my own longer tipped mounting "pins" on the lathe, so they touch the wheel rim, I'll even be able to leave trim rings on using it.

Nice tools. Used the tool on a friends car after rebuilding the suspension to get the alignment "close".
Alignment was actually pretty decent. Took the car to an alignment shop, and the car came back with the alignment so bad the tires were wearing on the side because the camber was way off. Used the tool, and got the alignment fixed. Not going back to that alignment shop.
Now I have the FasTrack alignment tool, toe plates, and some degreed turn tables I got from E-Bay.

Turning plates are good to have, but there is a low buck alternative that works very well....
Four pieces of 14 gauge or thicker steel plates about 9" square, use two per side & drop a blob of grease between the plates..... Nice thing is centering them isn't critical, they automatically pivot at the true steering axis

That Fastrax gauge is the same tool I have and have aligned many vehicles and been very satisfied with the results. I ran into the same issue many many times I would take a vehicle to get aligned and the car would pull or just steer like a turd. What you usually get is "it's set within factory specs" instead of actually adjusting everything so it actually tracks straight and doesn't wear tires. As a general rule on these older cars that are mainly street cars and not "Rally Cars" I shoot for -3/8 degree to -1/2 degree camber and +3 degree to +4 degree positive caster or a much positive caster that you can get while shooting for the previous mentioned camber specs.

kramer said:

That Fastrax gauge is the same tool I have and have aligned many vehicles and been very satisfied with the results. I ran into the same issue many many times I would take a vehicle to get aligned and the car would pull or just steer like a turd. What you usually get is "it's set within factory specs" instead of actually adjusting everything so it actually tracks straight and doesn't wear tires. As a general rule on these older cars that are mainly street cars and not "Rally Cars" I shoot for -3/8 degree to -1/2 degree camber and +3 degree to +4 degree positive caster or a much positive caster that you can get while shooting for the previous mentioned camber specs.

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don t worry wayne she already knows what you are buying ,women just know.

I bought that very tool and it works great. I find it takes a bit of time setting everything due to not having a pit, the results work great. I used ceramic flooring tiles for plates.

I got one just like that, had it for years. I use it all the time on my cars. Then, I just measure toe-in and adjust accordingly.