Did they give you a printout of your alignment specs? I'm curious as to what the numbers are to compare to what I set @THeGeNTLeMaN 's at. Awesome deal on the spare tire 
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They did I'll take a pic and post it later so you can have a look-see and tell me your thoughts... I noticed an oddity but its not affecting the drive or tracking of the vehicle so I said nothing -maybe to account for the crown of the road(?).
Hmm I'll take a look and see. I do alignments all day long but rarely on lifted vehicles so I'm a little rusty. But I'm going to school in December for alignments on modded vehicles so I should have a much better knowledge soon. @THeGeNTLeMaN said he didn't rub at all after I aligned his but it drifted a little so we need to make some adjustments. Then again we still had one rigged cam bolt I need to fix.
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Sorry if it's hard to read, its a super light printout... But these are my specs
Awesome thanks... I'll compare them to the one with the the one I did the other day. I'll try and see if I can enter the numbers to get a 3D illustration.
THeGeNTLeMaN
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Yeah @123ROBERTELEE it drifts to the right a Lil bit ...which is the side we're missing a proper cam bolt ... but at least it's not into on coming traffic. .. v8 torque with only FWD is fun pulling out onto a busy road lol ... it's get a Lil squirrly for the first 30ft ... but that's not the alignments fault ...
As for the spare tire @The Great Him... my thought is I know the spare tire cable is strong but that's a much heavier tire and you go off road a bit so it may come in contact with the ground at some point ... as a safety measure might not be a bad idea to attach a d-ring on the frame on either side of the spare to run a safety strap across it ... I have owned street only vehicles that have lost a spare ... don't how or where but all I know is I was left with a just frayed metal cable lol
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As for the spare tire @The Great Him... my thought is I know the spare tire cable is strong but that's a much heavier tire and you go off road a bit so it may come in contact with the ground at some point ... as a safety measure might not be a bad idea to attach a d-ring on the frame on either side of the spare to run a safety strap across it ... I have owned street only vehicles that have lost a spare ... don't how or where but all I know is I was left with a just frayed metal cable lol
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I am trying to put off my lower arm bushings until I can do the long travel fun, but I don't know if I will make it that long.
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I think with how tightly I had to stuff that tire up in there it would stay without the cable lol. And again it's so tight that even if I did bump it on a log or rock it wouldn't budge. It's also deflated so the tire could be impacted by a rock or log and probably not harm it at all, as long as its not a sharp rock or stout stick stabbing or slashing into the tire directly.
Today I took the GX out on a search and did some mild off roading and had no issues, got back and checked the tire, it had not budged. I found a nice spot where a creek had washed out the road completely, but its driveable over the creekbed rocks. I wanta go back there after a few good rains and there is water flowing through. It would make for an awesome picture.
Today I took the GX out on a search and did some mild off roading and had no issues, got back and checked the tire, it had not budged. I found a nice spot where a creek had washed out the road completely, but its driveable over the creekbed rocks. I wanta go back there after a few good rains and there is water flowing through. It would make for an awesome picture.
THeGeNTLeMaN
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I'm just saying 1/4 cable holding a 100lb +/- wheel and tire and how hard did you crank on it to stuff it in there... if the cable breaks bye bye spare .....
I ran mine like that for about 6 months before I got the my back bumper. Wheeled it hard, never lost it.
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It's no where near 100lbs (its 81lbs and lets call it another 1lb for valve stem and balancing weights, so 82lbs). And 1/4" cable is more than enough tensile strength to hold even a 200lb tire/wheel combo. 1/4" wire rope has a minimum breaking strength of 5480lbs and a safe load of 1100lbs.
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I appreciate it! Honeslty I do, if no one ever questioned anything imagine the world we would live in... It's part of why we are hear, to check each others worm and make sure we all have some semblance of sanity... Who knows maybe next week I'll try using zip ties to hold my trailer to the Lexus because I forgot the ball stinger... NBD the hardware store is only 3 blocks away lolWell here @DanKunz ...enjoy
Lol I'm jk I'm sure it will be fine ... Im just being paranoid for ya ... playing worst case scenario. ..
and just to make you self conscious of your decisions
THeGeNTLeMaN
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Ok ...Did you Google that?
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I did... And galvanized aircraft wire has a breaking strength of 7000lbs minimum.
THeGeNTLeMaN
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Now zip ties you can trust ...
Duct tape your spare to the underside of your of the gx .... zip tie the trailer hitch ... and wd40 everything that moves ...
THeGeNTLeMaN
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I Google image words to make sure they match my intentions
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And bailing wire the shock and all suspension and steering components
THeGeNTLeMaN
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Of course you think I'm an amateur. .. I keep a spoil next to my assortment of hose clamps ... in my plastic Shimano tool box
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Next week I'm gonna be making some custom lower control arms...
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