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Alignment - Need Advice

RB60

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Everyone -

Since new, my IG has pulled left. A month ago it was aligned and steering wheel centered up. There was still a pull.

Today, I had the alignment checked and it was adjusted. Attached are the results. After driving, still a pull left and unfortunately, the steering wheel is off center again (tilts left).

I am wondering what you think? Should I seek out an independent shop?
 

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I would start to look at tires and pressures now, alignment looks good.
 
Yes. That may be next. I am frustrated the steering wheel is off center once again. The tech adjusted the toe without resetting the drag link. It’s such a common procedure. I may need another dealer of 4x4 shop or go back to Crown Ineos in Columbus. I know Knauz is having service tech challenges. I love the vehicle regardless.
 
I do my own alignments and would agree with @Dougn - equalize address the caster first. For a lot of vehicles, caster isn't adjustable, but it is and maybe the tech skipped it because they didn't pay enough attention to see it's adjustable on the Grenny. It's very easy to do and as far as I can tell - at least on my vehicle - physically moving the eccentric-head bolts to the same position for left and right will get you very, very close. I put a hash mark with a cold chisel on my eccentric washers at their widest point (you could alternately do the bolt head) so I can visually tell exactly where the bolt is positioned. Then I maxed out the caster. The vehicle tracks much nicer and takes about 90% fewer micro adjustments going straight down the highway.

For vehicles where it’s possible
, some alignment shops will set extra caster on the driver's side to help compensate for the pulling caused by a crowned road - note that you have the opposite of that approach (more caster on the right) which would tend to exaggerate the effect of a crowned road. I don't set a caster split for myself on vehicles where this is possible since every road is different and it results in a very slight pull on flat roads.

Also ensure that each axle has equal tire pressure left to right. If after all this and it still pulls, swap the front tires left to right (no - don't dismount them) and do a short test drive to see if that changes anything. I have seen cases where odd tire wear or broken cords can cause pulling. You won't hurt the tires by running them backwards for a few miles if you avoid extreme acceleration and braking. If swapping the tires left to right improves the situation and the tires look okay otherwise, you could try dismounting them and swapping left to right (preserving the original direction of rotation). Or just replace them. I had several sets of non-LT Bridgestones Blizzaks on my Toyota 4Runner over the years that would get all squirrely for directional stability about halfway through their life and swapping them side to side usually improved the situation greatly. For clarity, these tires had even wear across the tread face and no internal damage.

When you test your vehicle for pulling, if you can't find a perfectly flat road (most aren't), find a slow, less travelled road and drive down the middle of the road so you're stradling the crown to negate pulling caused by the road camber. Or find a nice flat parking lot after the business is closed for the evening.

edits: an extraordinarily rude member who probably doesn’t have any friends and comes here to take out his frustrations on others pointed out that the relative caster left to right is set by how the axle is assembled - quite true and a brain fart by me because I've been working on IFS vehicles since the '70's. Caster can, however, be decreased or increased to the max allowed by the lower links and fasteners. Exceed factory specs at your own peril. The issue here is an increased front driveshaft angle and it deleterious effect on the CV boot, but the difference in driveshaft angle between max factory caster and max possible caster is negligible.
 
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When will people stop talking out of their arse?

Caster on the Grenadier cannot be changed independently from left to right. This is a solid axle thing. Outside of some super esoteric vehicles you can adjust caster on every road going vehicle, if they have a solid axle up front then the left to right is Al's not always fixed to each other, but independent vehicles can be adjusted independently. Odd ball 2wd I beam front axles can be tweaked left to right with some heat and force.

I'm not even going to address some of the other wild claims here.
 
When will people stop talking out of their arse?
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Outside of some super esoteric vehicles you can adjust caster on every road going vehicle

Wow, you’re quite a rude fellow. I’ll bet you piss off most of the people you meet. When you’re that rude nobody wants to hear what you have to say, even if it’s right. And no, don’t bother addressing the other wild claims . . . nobody’s interested in your crass behavior.

As to your other quoted statement, easily demonstrated to be false. I have a not-so-esoteric vehicle - a VW - for which caster is not adjustable without adding aftermarket parts (also true for my previous VW).

Congrats - you’ve been blocked.
 
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Wow, you’re quite a rude fellow. I’ll bet you piss off most of the people you meet. When you’re that rude nobody wants to hear what you have to say, even if it’s right. And no, don’t bother addressing the other wild claims . . . nobody’s interested in your crass behavior.

As to your other quoted statement, easily demonstrated to be false. I have a not-so-esoteric vehicle - a VW - for which caster is not adjustable without adding aftermarket parts (also true for my previous VW). Also true for my Porsche (unless I add aftermarket parts).

Congrats - you’ve been blocked.
I would like to congratulate myself for this exceptional achievement. 😂
 
What about the concern of additional wear on the front CV joint when the caster is set to max?

It definitely looks like it increases the angle of the drive shaft.

Do you know what your caster angle is when you set it to the physical max of the washer.

Note: I may have passed gas while writing this, however, I did not speak out of my arse.
 
What about the concern of additional wear on the front CV joint when the caster is set to max?

It definitely looks like it increases the angle of the drive shaft.

Do you know what your caster angle is when you set it to the physical max of the washer.

Note: I may have passed gas while writing this, however, I did not speak out of my arse.
I didn't smell anything so you're good.

Most certainly keeping your caster on the low end will help a bit with the drive shaft issue. The trade off is of course a bit less stability on the highway at higher speeds. It's a tough call to be sure.

Based on some numbers provided by another user here the reduction in shaft angle is pretty marginal at lower Caster angles. So don't expect it to be a total game changer. And when lifted you will likely want more caster anyways. Again, tough call.
 
The what I would call "vague center dead spot" was a problem for me. Having to do constant small left and right corrections made driving very tiring.

I installed the non-adjustable Fox steering stabilizer and it may have been better.

I installed a winch on the front and changed from the OEM green dot front springs to the heavier OEM red dot springs.

I did an alignment at the same time and set the castor to 2.?

This made a big difference.

I am hunting for the best configuration. It is confusing as many people have "perfect" steering and other are bitterly complaining.

Thanks...
 
Do you know what your caster angle is when you set it to the physical max of the washer.
No I don’t. I use my leveled four post lift for alignments and it’s currently occupied above and below with sports cars stored for the winter. So I didn’t measure the result (I’ll check it this spring). I did watch the CV as I rotated the adjustment bolt and the axle moved less than a degree. My washers started out about 90° from max caster, so the addition to caster was pretty small by that account as well. The axle should have started out around 2°, presuming Ineos adjusted it properly, so it’s probably just a little less than 3° now. For reference, on other trucks, 4° to 6° wouldn’t be unusual.
 
No I don’t. I use my leveled four post lift for alignments and it’s currently occupied above and below with sports cars stored for the winter. So I didn’t measure the result (I’ll check it this spring). I did watch the CV as I rotated the adjustment bolt and the axle moved less than a degree. My washers started out about 90° from max caster, so the addition to caster was pretty small by that account as well. The axle should have started out around 2°, presuming Ineos adjusted it properly, so it’s probably just a little less than 3° now. For reference, on other trucks, 4° to 6° wouldn’t be unusual.

Should have started out... Mine should have started out around 2 degrees as well. It was .5 from the factory. It's been aligned by the dealer to be "in spec" but I wasn't provided the number and I haven't been back to my local guy to see what it's actually set at. My eyeballs on the eccentrics suggests there's room for more caster.
 
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