New Alignment Tool, No Affiliation, No Experience Options

[FlacaProductions]

https://gyraline.com/pages/how-gyraline-works

User manual available from the download link at the bottom.

Thought some of you who do home alignment might find this a good, new alternative.

[technicalninja]

I go even simpler now-a-days.

Most vehicles don't have caster adjustments, and many don't have camber either.

I use a digital level and a couple of Jenga blocks to take camber measurements from the edges of the rim.

I use a tape measure across the tread to adjust toe. You have to find a repeatable spot to measure.

I use an 8' fluorescent light bulb to make a determination on which side to adjust.
This is used across the tire in the center.
Makes it EASY to see which tire is pointed wrong.
The light bulb method is the single easiest way to achieve a nice straight steering wheel IMO.

For 90% of the vehicles I hit this works fine.

I do tell my customers "Get a real alignment".
Some do...
Many have told me "They didn't have to adjust anything"!

This way does not catch caster at all.

All of this depends on having wheels and tires that are straight and don't have funky bulges on the sides.

All I do is spin them with some kind of hardline reference behind them but in my view.

The human eye can see variances below .001"...

I can always tell is the wheel/tire is straight enough for this method to work.

Aggressive tread off road type tires are the hardest to do this with.