spat70
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Orlando, FL
The past year I have have the front ends of xj's apart more times than I can count. I hate paying for alignments, and the tape measure method is a p.i.t.a and just a guess.
What Im thinking of building is a a home laser alignment jig. Using those cheap laser pointers from the gas station.
If you remove the wheels and put it on jackstands so its close to ride hight and bolt a piece of particle board to each rotor in place of the wheel. Affix the laser pointer to the board and come up with a way to make it shoot true to the board/wheel track.
Now start doing some math. Get the exact distance from the center of the lasers. Transfer that measurement to a 2x4. Find a person with some good math skills and find the distance from the center of the wheel to the 2x4 so you can have hash marks in 1/10 of a degree.
If might take 2 hours or so to build the jig and 15-20 bucks in materal.
But now you can set your toe and just look at the red dot on the board as your adjusting. Sound like an idea, or am I nuts?
What Im thinking of building is a a home laser alignment jig. Using those cheap laser pointers from the gas station.
If you remove the wheels and put it on jackstands so its close to ride hight and bolt a piece of particle board to each rotor in place of the wheel. Affix the laser pointer to the board and come up with a way to make it shoot true to the board/wheel track.
Now start doing some math. Get the exact distance from the center of the lasers. Transfer that measurement to a 2x4. Find a person with some good math skills and find the distance from the center of the wheel to the 2x4 so you can have hash marks in 1/10 of a degree.
If might take 2 hours or so to build the jig and 15-20 bucks in materal.
But now you can set your toe and just look at the red dot on the board as your adjusting. Sound like an idea, or am I nuts?