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#430174 - 05/06/05 08:53 AM Something strange I noticed this morning
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So I park my truck on the lot and leave to get to work. As I'm walking I notice that the front wheels are cambered out or in other words look like this \...../ if looked at from the front.

I made sure the wheels were straight, parking lot was level, and I didn't drink this morning.

Alignment was done about 2000-3000 miles ago and was done right, I saw the print out myself and truck drove perfectly.

There was no change in steering feel, the truck does not pull to either side. I did go offroad a few weeks ago though.

Just tell me that I'm seeing things. Seriously, is it supposed to be like this? Mind you they don't look as bad as my little drawing on here, just slightly out.

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#430175 - 05/06/05 09:49 AM Re: Something strange I noticed this morning
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If you stand directly in front of the truck and look straight on, it'll give the illusion of the tires being pigeon toed. Look at each wheel from directly in front of it individually. Is there any unusual wear on the tires? If they still look out of alignment, get it back to the shop. I'm sure they back up their work.

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#430176 - 05/06/05 09:57 AM Re: Something strange I noticed this morning
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Quote:
Originally posted by SRTMO:
...illusion of the tires being pigeon toed..
"Pigeon toed" you mean \..../ right (looking from front directly)?

There is no unsual wear or at least not yet. The tire looks fine looking at it individually.

I'm assuming that if there was a problem there would be a change in steering/handling as opposed to the time alignment was done. There has been no change and trucks drives very much straight. Not even the inherent X pull to the right.

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#430177 - 05/06/05 10:04 AM Re: Something strange I noticed this morning
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Pigeon Toed refers to the front to rear, not the top to bottom orientation...

\ / looking DOWN at the tires, with the bottom of this pic being the front of the truck...would be pigeon toed.

laugh

When cranking the T-Bars....you get the originally mentioned effect. \ / (looking from the front again...with the tops of the tires as the tops of the lines shown)...and that's what the aligment is primarily fixing.

I'd have it re-checked too.

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#430178 - 05/06/05 10:08 AM Re: Something strange I noticed this morning
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I'll take it back to the place in a few days and have them look at it one more time. Alignment specs were pefect when I did it though.

Thanks for the time.

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#430179 - 06/06/05 06:31 PM Re: Something strange I noticed this morning
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The X, when aligned to factory specs, will appear visually to have negative camber (bottoms in closer to center than the tops), or so I have read here on this board and observed on my truck.
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#430180 - 06/06/05 06:36 PM Re: Something strange I noticed this morning
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i never noticed that on my truck until i had it lifted.. my tires look like ' \ / ' as well.. the spec sheet on my alignment looks pretty close to perfect- i dont think its anything to worry about either..

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#430181 - 06/06/05 09:37 PM Re: Something strange I noticed this morning
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Quote:
Originally posted by Xterradon:
The X, when aligned to factory specs, will appear visually to have negative camber (bottoms in closer to center than the tops), or so I have read here on this board and observed on my truck.
Same here...

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