Toe-End Gauge

[whirnot]

Originally Posted by Phil Brown

Toe plates can be simple wood or some bent aluminum plate to stand by themselves. Keep them pushed against the tire and throw a brick on them for some weight and measure away, hook tape on one side and read the other. Go high-tech with two tape measures ( one front and one back) and a helper to turn the tie rod while you read the tapes

The problem with that is it does not take into account a possible bent wheel.
I believe factory spec allowed up to 1/8 inch runout.

If you measure the same place on each tire, but move the car to the new location, it takes that out of the equation.

[Phil Brown]

Originally Posted by whirnot

The problem with that is it does not take into account a possible bent wheel.
I believe factory spec allowed up to 1/8 inch runout.

If you measure the same place on each tire, but move the car to the new location, it takes that out of the equation.

If your wheels are bent it's going to mess up any tape measure toe-in setting

[30Murray]

Originally Posted by Phil Brown

If your wheels are bent it's going to mess up any tape measure toe-in setting

Find the most severely bent point on each wheel and make sure that is pointing either straight up or down and the toe plate method will work fine to give an average toe in measurement

[J Franklin]

Put the bent wheels on the rear.