Wheels on front axle tilted in on the bottom of tire

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@1lukeduke, i seen you "liked" one of my old posts on camber shims. I ran then for a while. They got rid of the tilt on the narrowed dana frt end, but they didn't really do anything. They were more of a pita if i had the remove the spindle. A straight axle has camber built in to it and its difficult to adjust it. Back in the 80' i had a big truck/semi spring and alignment shop align my stk 40's frt end. The tech was an old pro with hand held measuring devices. The drivers side camber was off. He strapped the axle down with chain to the alignment pit and put a porta power under the axle. He activated the porta power for a second or two, then said "that should be a degree" and rechecked it. He set toe and centered the steering wheel. Then had me drive over plates to to check and fine tune the alignment. As others said, play with tire pressure. I aired down to 26ish for a slightly better ride. Later I put 28psi and gained 1.5 mpg's.
 
@1lukeduke, i seen you "liked" one of my old posts on camber shims. I ran then for a while. They got rid of the tilt on the narrowed dana frt end, but they didn't really do anything. They were more of a pita if i had the remove the spindle. A straight axle has camber built in to it and it’s difficult to adjust it. Back in the 80' i had a big truck/semi spring and alignment shop align my stk 40's frt end. The tech was an old pro with hand held measuring devices. The drivers side camber was off. He strapped the axle down with chain to the alignment pit and put a porta power under the axle. He activated the porta power for a second or two, then said "that should be a degree" and rechecked it. He set toe and centered the steering wheel. Then had me drive over plates to to check and fine tune the alignment. As others said, play with tire pressure. I aired down to 26ish for a slightly better ride. Later I put 28psi and gained 1.5 mpg's.
I saw that. I’m not sure there is people like that anymore. I was looking at a shop manual and it suggest that the front axle came with a one degree in on the camber. That could just be what i am looking at. It appears wrong but could be factory. Thanks for all the info @pb4ugo
 
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