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I finished up a little more not the car today and confirmed there is a problem with the front suspension.

I previously flipped the UCA cross shafts based on guidance from Blake. Yesterday I took the car for an alignment. I found a shop that has a brand new Hunter machine using the sensors that mount to the tires and not the wheel. This was much easier to watch rather than fearing wheel damage.

Unfortunately even with the fancy new machine they still could not get the alignment to the spec Speedtech advises. Below is a shot of the screen with the final spec we set the car to. We removed all front shims but needed the front of the UCA to move even further to outside of the car. It seems either I need to cut and move the UCA mount or the Speedtech cross shaft is too thick and needs to be milled down. I left Blake and voicemail yesterday and will hopefully discuss the issue with him tomorrow. I didn't know what the best non-optimal alignment was so I decided to meet the caster spec at the expense of the camber.






Good news for the day is that the truck is very much alive and not damaged by the overheat. I ended up replacing the fan clutch since the fan decided to cut the wire. Otherwise I added more coolant and cleared the codes but that's all. I was very excited to be able to pull the loaded car hauler up a very steep grade without issue. Huge relief.


It was also took the time yesterday to finish up the exhaust a little more. I added some clearance for the x-members and some isolator mounts to reduce the vibration.













It was a nice day with the sun going down so a photo op was needed at the shop