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Originally Posted by James
Yes it will affect the alignment. It will increase the Caster, making it harder to steer with manual steering (power steering not so much). With that much camber and over an inch of toe-in no wonder your tires got ate up.
In fact with that much caster with manual steering it would still be hard to turn the wheel. In my 64 maintenance manual it stated I needed to set it to approx .5° and I have manual steering. Before I adjusted it it had over 3° and extremely hard to steer.
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Well shoot... Should I say something to the tech about it Friday morning? I can't really afford to pay another $90 for alignment at the moment.
The 1964 GMC manual calls for .5° caster? The 1963 Chevrolet Truck Shop Manual (if I am reading the chart correctly) calls for 2° caster at 0° camber, so it seems like the tech got pretty close to spec. I have a scan of the chart on my computer, but I'm not sure if I should share it here for copyright infringement reasons.