Alignment Specs

Can someone look at this and tell me if this is what it’s supposed to be? Don’t know much about this

 

scratch my first post if ya read it. Edit! Yes that is a good align after your initial spec sheet. They did ya a great align

these are my specs with 3” lift and stock control arms


Below is spec with Camburg control arms. It’s suppose to have 6-7* of caster. Rides night and day diff

 

Thanks! Much appreciate the info. Here’s the finished product

 

6-7* of caster? Good lord. You must really like replacing your rack and pinion every 10k miles huh?

You shouldn’t run more than 3* of caster, especially with larger, heavier wheels and tires. 6-7* of caster puts tremendous strain on your steering components.

 

That looks great!

Maybe you should call Camburg and tell them you would like to be their engineer since apparently you know more.


Positive caster creates a lot of align torque (the force that straightens the steering wheel when you go forward) which improves straight line stability of the car. Due to the geometry of positive caster it also will increase negative camber gain (a good thing) when turning. As you increase positive caster the steering wheel will get heavier also, but with modern power steering systems this is rarely a problem.

However when you do not have stock suspension components then there isn’t a need to replace components (ie rack) every 10k because it is correct. Doubtful Camburg has only a YouTube degree....

 

Camburg isn’t telling you to run 7* of caster. Positive caster is needed, but you can certainly have too much. I know exactly how caster works. Hence why I’m trying to help you. You can put the required oil fill amount in your truck but putting an extra quart isn’t going to make it run better. You’re doing more harm than good. Too much positive caster means the pump has to work that much harder to turn the wheels opposite of the force pushing them back straight, I.e. positive caster. The truck only comes with 3* of positive caster at most in stock form with 31.8” tires.

The truck will right itself perfectly fine with as little as 1.5* of caster in these trucks. 2-3* of caster is ideal

So you can run 7* of caster all you want since you seem to know what you’re doing.

Lol

Good luck.

 

We build quite a bit more caster into all our Tundra upper arms intentionally, it really improves the handling. We typically align them around 5.5 - 6 degrees depending on the ride height of the truck. Because of the anti-dive built into the upper arm frame mounts in relation to the lower arm mounts, caster changes quickly with ride height changes.

We have trucks with over 100K miles on them with zero steering issues on the original steering parts. Not something to be concerned about. I've got 30K on my Tundra and steering is good as the day I drove her off the showroom floor.

Scott @ Camburg