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Old 08-30-16, 09:57 AM
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Hi, I did not realize my left front wheel took most of the hit when the lady hit Judy, After I put the tires on I took it in for a 4 wheel alignment and the man said it was WAY out of spec's, so he aligned it up per spec's
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It doesn't look like it was that bad actually. Camber maybe took a little hit but the rest could be considered normal wear and tear for the most part.
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The rear toe was a slight issue. The front toe is relative, you drive with the steering wheel cocked a small amount the toe is in spec what makes it show out is they center the steering wheel. I thought lexus ran with a bit on negative camber?
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Billy do you have a manual on the car? If you do could you post what they say are the specs? I'm just curious of the difference from a 92 to your year LS.
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just read the printout, it says it all
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Yeah but that is not the Lexus manual. The out fit could have slightly different specs, matter of fact those specs don't come close to my 92 manual.

Here is with out air suspension
Front camber 0.0 deg +- 45 minutes
Front caster 9 deg 10 minutes +- 45 minutes
SAI 8 deg 45 minutes +- 45 minutes
Total Toe in .2 deg +- .2deg
or toe in measure difference of front to back 0.0 to .160
The manual actually says .08 +-.08...

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I have the manual, where is it listed and I will copy it... alignment is not listed.
or go to my website, my email is listed and send me your email and I will send the manual to you zipped

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I don't want the zipped manual, unless Lexus has released it so that is okay. The specs where in manual number 2 in Brakes and suspension.
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Originally Posted by dicer
I don't want the zipped manual, unless Lexus has released it so that is okay. The specs where in manual number 2 in Brakes and suspension.
here it is
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According to that you can have toe out with the air suspension. Its the 1 mm +- 2mm or .04 +- .08 inches.
All interesting stuff. Thanks for the info
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Originally Posted by dicer
According to that you can have toe out with the air suspension. Its the 1 mm +- 2mm or .04 +- .08 inches.
All interesting stuff. Thanks for the info
when I bought my shop, 1/1/70, it had a drive on alignment machine that we took out, none of us did alignments and never learned how, just farmed align's to NTB, our neighbor.. we only had 7 stalls + office and that kept my 3 workers busy..... hope it helped

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