Allignment question

[65coronet440]

Hey everyone, i have a question...

I recently did a front end rebuild and a disc brake swap on my coronet.. I noticed that I was toe'd in a bit on the tires, i was hoping to just limp it to a allignment shop, but on my drive to test the brakes i was leaving rubber behind from the front tires if i was making any kind of turn... All the shops i called said they wont allign a classic car....sounds pretty dumb to me! But i Heard that there is a way to allign our classic cars at home... I have never done this so i was hoping someone could ellaberate on it a little bit....thanks... i just really want to drive this car...summers winding down and im running out of cruising time.......thanks

 

[YY1]

I used to do it "by feel" back in high school. The toe is pretty easy, since you can measure it without a rack. While you're doing it, you can center the steering wheel. What I did (if I am remembering corrctly), was set the camber so the wheel looked pretty much level, and then set the caster until the car went straight with my hands off the wheel. You should then remeasure and adjust the toe.

I usually got it enough within spec that only one out of three times did it need anything more done as measured by our then new Hunter digital allignment rack. Every now and then the instructor would say "that's on the line, I'd do it again", and left it up to me i'f I felt comfortable leaving it. He let a couple other guys try to get them in before putting it on the rack, but almost everone else was a chevy or ford guy, so they either had no use, didn't care, or just plain couldn't (shims, etc). Junior year instructor was a mopar guy and pretty cool, senior year guy was ford.

...almost forgot...Someone correct me if i'm wrong here-

Cam bolts both at the same time adjusts camber, do that and then pull the rear (shoot I forget) in and up to get caster??

 

[Cranky]

I've been doing my own alignment for over 25 years. I didn't read this but you might check it out. Also, the more you learn about front end geometry, the better you will understand what to do. It is really not that hard to understand....
http://www.allpar.com/fix/alignment.html