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Originally Posted by JRouche
Now there is a new measurement for me. The toe on a live axle. I never thought of checking toe for a solid axle housing. If its off how do you correct it? Im gonna check mine now that it sounds like a possible adjustment. If is off how do I correct it? Learning every day. I love this site!!! JR
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Frank is right on. Actually this is something everyone should do. If you do alot of welding on the tubes to mount brackets, it is not uncommon to warp a tube. You should check the "toe" as well as "camber". If you do have a problem, I recommend taking it to a rear end shop and they can straighten it in a number of ways. Press, heat and quench or in some extreme cases they may have to cut the ends off the tube and re-weld them in alignment. I have seen this hundreds of times while I was racing. It turns up when trying to do an alignment on the race cars only to find out you can't get everything square. This issue is usually the culprit. I was actually going to start a thread on this some time ago and then forgot. I see alot of people welding brackets to rear ends and then just installing them. I hope they are checking them before they move on. Just my 1.5 cents! You guys are building some sweet machines. Keep up the good work.
