Good old alignment shops are still out there. I live in a community of
about 40,000 and we have 2 such shops. The one I use is owned by a car
collector. When I took my 66 Crown in for alignment and front check, he and
his son who works for him had to take it out for a test drive which entailed
closing the shop for 20 minutes. He needed no direction on how to align, he
knew how to do it and had the old books. His shop also replaced the
accumulator for the ABS on my 92. Now that I have seen it done, I could have
done it but was not familiar with these systems at all. He charged $25 in
labor, so everybody needs to make a living. This shop is known for "If you
can't get it fixed anywhere else, take it to Ray Snider." In the long run
if you take your cars to this type of place, you will have less money spent
and a much more pleasurable Imperial experience
Matt Hopkins
66 Crown
75 Lebaron
92 Imperial
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Subject: Re: IML: Alignment Proceedures - '56
My shop has aligned the front end on both my '55 and my '56 Imperials
without asking a single question. In fact I was so pleased with them, that I
ALLOWED them the privilege of rebuilding the front end on my '62. After some
confusion over whether or not I had supplied the correct lower control arm
bushings, they did a fabulous job.
I would say that if your front end shop doesn't know how to align the front
end, you need to find another shop.
Paul
In a message dated 2/12/2004 1:03:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, JCantor791
writes:
>
>
> I took my '56 Sedan in to have the alignment checked now that I have new
> (read expensive) tires on it. I brought along my copy of the factory
service
> manual as the tech had requested so that he would have the proper specs.
>
> Well after 45 minutes of pawing over both the car and the book, neither he
> nor I could figure out how one adjusts the caster. Camber and toe
settings he
> was able to correct without difficulty but the book provides little help
on
> caster, saying only to adjust the eccentric bushing on the upper control
arm. We
> couldn't find such a bushing on the inboard end of the control arm nor any
> other means of adjustment.
>
> Does anyone with a '55 or '56 have experience with the proper caster
> adjustment procedures? I ask mostly out of curiosity as the car handles
and tracks
> very well and caster shouldn't affect tire wear.
>
> Thanks
> Jeff
> '56 Sedan
> Trenton, NJ
>
>
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