After lift alignment procedure

[Mikester86]

I dropped my 2020 JLUR off last week Wednesday to have the Rancho 2" sport lift, Rancho front and rear adjustable track bars and Rancho's geometry correction brackets installed by a local 4x4 shop.

They called me Saturday around 2:30pm (they close at 3pm on Saturday) asking if they can keep it until Monday, as it was not tracking as good as they would like. They wanted to get it perfect for me. Of course I was fine with this.

I get a call today to inform me that the Jeep is ready to be picked up. He said they worked on it until about 5:30PM Saturday to get it tuned in. I asked him what they needed to resolve to get it tracking to their liking, and he informed me that they do not use an alignment rack/machine on lifted Jeeps and do it all by measurement.

Has anyone else had a shop align this way? Can basically only adjust the castor and tire toe as far as I know. I was surprised by this, but the proof will be in the drivability once I pick it up later today.

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[Terminex]

From the factory you can only adjust toe. The Rancho brackets will set your castor. (To adjust castor you would need adjustable control arms.)

with the adjustable track bars they can also center your axles side to side.

soo, with what you bought, they can center the axles, and adjust toe.

 

[Mikester86]

From the factory you can only adjust toe. The Rancho brackets will set your castor. (To adjust castor you would need adjustable control arms.)

with the adjustable track bars they can also center your axles side to side.

soo, with what you bought, they can center the axles, and adjust toe.

Which can all be done with measurements. Makes sense to me. Thanks for the reply.

 

[Terminex]

Which can all be done with measurements. Makes sense to me. Thanks for the reply.

correct, but it does not take long at all. Setting toe with tape measures takes me about 15 - 20 min. Centering the axles takes me about 5 min. Centering the steering wheel after all of that takes about 3 min.

 

[Mikester86]

correct, but it does not take long at all. Setting toe with tape measures takes me about 15 - 20 min. Centering the axles takes me about 5 min. Centering the steering wheel after all of that takes about 3 min.

Which really peaks my curiosity as to what they had to do to tune in the tracking? Unless they really played with the tow to get it to a point it tracked to their satisfaction.

I’m thankful they spent the time fine tuning it. As it’s the best interest in all parties involved for sure.

 

[Mikester86]

Picked up the Jeep and was very happy with the way it drove. Until I was home and able to look things over. They put the driver side springs on the passenger side and they did not relocate the emergency brake line either.

Dropped the Jeep back off to them and hope they find the competence to correct it all. I am not a happy camper!

 

[Mikester86]

Picked Jeep up Saturday after they corrected their mistakes. All good so far. Loving the new suspension and 2” of lift.

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