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Offline AJMBLAZER

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Alignment specs?
« on: July 08, 2006, 10:41:03 AM »
Anyone got any thoughts on the alignment specs.  I've heard that the factory specs are kinda iffy.  As the tires wear and the parts settle in the specs which are too close to "being out" loosen up past the okay point and the front tires end up pointing away from each other and you get that front end shake.

Anyone had any experiences with this or got their own alignment specs?
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Re: Alignment specs?
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2006, 02:35:05 PM »
do you need the original alignment specs?
« Last Edit: July 09, 2006, 03:01:05 PM by beerman »
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Re: Alignment specs?
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2006, 04:48:38 PM »
I guess that'd be what I need.  Just want to make sure they know what they're doing.

If anyone has found some that are better than OEM that'd be great too.
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Re: Alignment specs?
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2006, 04:56:51 PM »
huuuuuh-huh-huh...

you got a pm.
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Re: Alignment specs?
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2006, 07:54:56 PM »
My 2004 GV is dead stock and relatively low miles. Within the fairly-wide factory toe range of +/-2mm
 I've settled on 1.0mm toe-in based on minimising tire wear.  Some info on procedures I followed is here:

http://paulaxford.com/suzuki/toe-in_intro.htm

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Re: Alignment specs?
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2006, 01:57:58 PM »
factory specs suck. my GV had negative camber stock and wore the tires like crap and flollowed ruts real bad and was a scary SOB on the highway in big ruts. my grandpa's 04 XL-7 that he bought brand new wears the tires like the camber is neagative too. one of my dad's customers was talking about his stock XL-7 following ruts real bad as well

now that I have camber bolts and got an alighnemt from the alighnment shop it does not follow ruts at all anymore and just drive great. I think they set the camber perfectly straight up and down.
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Re: Alignment specs?
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2006, 03:08:37 PM »
Factory specs for camber are:

GV  -  0deg +/- 1deg.

XL-7 - 0deg +/- 1.5deg.

So the factory should be near 0deg, but maybe even stock trucks should have camber bolts, because there's too much variability in the struts.
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Re: Alignment specs?
« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2006, 03:29:28 PM »
Quote from: IanL on July 11, 2006, 03:08:37 PM
Factory specs for camber are:

GV  -  0deg +/- 1deg.

XL-7 - 0deg +/- 1.5deg.

So the factory should be near 0deg, but maybe even stock trucks should have camber bolts, because there's too much variability in the struts.

I was going to put camber bolts on mine lift or no lift because the negative camber is horible on tire wear and I recently found out that was making it drive like crap all this time

stock vehicles should have slotted struts or camber bolts.. period. that's the only way to go
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