Why would rear solid axle toe be off?

factory doesnt build toe into the axle intentionally, a small amount of negative camber is preferred on the rear but also is not purposly built in. your first post of 7/32 is a lot... lots of things can contribute and with your changes i would put it on something there vs the axle housing unless it came from a wrecked car.

factory doesnt build toe into the axle intentionally, a small amount of negative camber is preferred on the rear but also is not purposly built in. your first post of 7/32 is a lot... lots of things can contribute and with your changes i would put it on something there vs the axle housing unless it came from a wrecked car.

I agree and dissagree with you, I agree that they don't build it to a specific degree, however they do build it to be within a specific range...and that range is rather small. All cars have some sorta alignment angles for drive axles. Thing is, as long as the wheel is straight, and/or it's not burning through a set of tires every month, most people don't care about the alignment. Frankly I would adjust the other control arm that you didn't shorten, I'd lengthen it, and if necessary, I'd shorten up the one you shortened more if necessary.

I am going to put this all back together, after I have spent the last couple of days checking things out, measuring etc. What I think I might do is take my driver side upper and add about 1/16-1/8" over the passenger side upper to try and get it to rotate a bit. Past that I am just going to drive the fucker and deal with it. I will have the axle straightened when I have 9" end welded on.

What I need is adjustable lower control arms so I can move the drive side back to match the pass or vice versa.

lol....funniest thread of 2010!!!!!!

Whenever you guys get done talking about shit you know nothing about, let me know and I will tell you how to fix this.

Just for grins, what kind of alignment machine was this on?

lol....funniest thread of 2010!!!!!!

Whenever you guys get done talking about shit you know nothing about, let me know and I will tell you how to fix this.

no doubt, it's gettin' deep in here...

we bend them all the time circle track racing. i straighten them with a big chain and port-o-power or a hydraulic jack. generally, they are not perfectly straight from the factory. it not a critical area to worry about on a street car.

People are offering opinons. Whether they are correct or not doesnt mean shit to me, I just want ideas. All I am looking for is getting the thrust angle as close to 0 as possible and the rest I dont care about. Measuring by hand the passenger wheel WAS off by 1/8" or so. I now have it almost identical but I have no idea how I did it because I essentially dissasembled the entire rear suspension.

I dont ask what machines they use cause I dont really care. One had laser reflectors mounted the the wheels, the other had big ass boxes mounted to the wheels.