Hey guys, I'm new here and hoping for some insight.

I recently put a 4" rough country lift on my 95 F150 and immediately took it to the alignment shop. They were unable to get the camber right on the driver's side. It's currently off -2.96 degrees. The guy there suggested rising the driver's side axle pivot point in the bracket a few inches, changing the angle of the entire driver's side axle.





Hope that makes sense. Seems to me that this would be lot easier than installing adjustable ball joints and shims. What do you guys think?

 

The adjustable bushing for the ball joint is the easiest way. The alignment shop has to tinker with them awhile to get dialed in.

When these trucks were a little more common they use to take a different route. Install 0 caster and camber bushings at the start of the alignment. Take a reading. Install a new bushing with the proper correction built in. There are literally hundreds of variations of that bushing.

Believe it or not option 2 is cheaper and probably easier. If the alignment tech's haven't used the adjustable bushings they are very hard to get set correctly.

 

Hey man, I have the same kit on my 96 150 and I had a similar issue that you have. Except mine was both tires. Both of them had a negative camber so my front tires looked like this / \ Anyways, I may be wrong but is the alignment guy is saying you want to attach the driver side axle to the BOTTOM hole on the bracket? If so, DONT DO IT!!!!! There's no way the front axle or lift would work properly if you do. The bottom hole is for the 6" lifts. I recommend you get extreme adjustable camber bushings for both sides(that's what I did) and it worked perfectly.

 

I have the 6 inch rc lift..the bottom hole is for that..I too had trouble on the alignment,It took the shop 2x to get it right> On a side note if the shop is telling you to move the pivot point to the bottom hole i would ran fast and far from that shop

 

take it to a better shop, it just needs more extreme camber bushings to get the alignment right. iv had no issues getting mine aligned after a lift.

 

Sorry I think my post was a tad misleading. The guy at the shop recommended drilling a new hole above the 4" lift location, not the hole below. I am aware that is for the 6" lift and that would make the camber angle even worse. I found a 2.75 degree camber collar, however I already have a smaller collar in there so if I swap them I don't think I'll be able to get the angle I need. Shouldn't a decent alignment shop be able to get ahold of the right bushings to take care of that angle?

 

yes on the bushings..find a new shop if they want to drill more holes

 

get the Moog adjustable bushings from Rockauto.

 

I would just say get new bushings... You'll have to figure out what kind you will need. Don't let the alignment shop tell you that you need other crap to fix it. And you should put the new bushings in yourself then take it to get it aligned. It will save you some $$$

 

Right on thanks guys. Roach, I will do that. I appreciate the insight.