I noticed today that my "new" front tires (3000 miles) that I put on when I bought my car have a slight bit of wear on the inside and I when I run my hand both directions on them I can feel the difference between the two directions. I know some of my original front bushings are showing their age, so I guess I know my project this winter.
My question is, does someone have alignment specs for 66 B body with radial tires that is known to be good specs? I know I've seen some discussion on this on different forums but I need to know what specs to get this done to. From what I recall, the stock specs don't work on these B bodies with radial tires.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
We don't have any grandkids yet but I'm driving it like a grandpa already.... I think I've heard the back tires all of a half dozen times since I put the 427 in!
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
I have not had any problems with the alignments done on 2 of my cars after redoing all of the bushings and asking the alignment shop to follow this tip.
-- Edited by seventy2plus2 on Sunday 8th of September 2019 10:54:22 AM
Here's the sheet from my convertible after redoing the steering, suspension & brakes. The work order said to put in maximum caster, and you'll see it's at 2.1 & 2.2 degrees.
just switched from bias to radial on my 68 Chevy II Carl - the alignment shop adjusted the caster to plus 3 degrees over original specs both sides and it drives great, I imagine the same principle would apply to your 66
We have a great machine at work, very new and our guy enjoys doing the alignments, but stuff like this helps.
I was talking to Beaumontguru today. We did an alignment on his 64 A body wagon a little while back and he says it drives nice. I will have to see what they did for specs on his to get an idea if they increased caster on it.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
I will be heading Rosenort way in the near future as I changed my front bushings. I used AC Delco bushings from Rock Auto in the front end and it needs an alignment real bad.
-- Edited by 68 Grande on Wednesday 11th of September 2019 05:24:42 PM
-- Edited by 68 Grande on Wednesday 11th of September 2019 05:25:32 PM
Make sure everything is in good shape before you come out. It's always frustrating for a customer when they show up and then we can't do an alignment because a tie rod, ball joint, idler arm or whatever is so loose we can't do a good alignment until it's changed.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars