Hey guys need some help with personal experience. I need an alignment shop near Denver or anywhere east of there that is GOOD. I'm tired of messing around and ruining sets of steer tires. My truck is either set wrong or has bad parts I can't identify properly. Everything seems fine to me but my tires tell me otherwise. I want the best shop to look at my truck. I am tired of wasting time and money. Please post your personal experience with shops near Denver Colorado or anywhere out on the eastern plains. Thanks in advance.
Best Alignment Shop Colorado?
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Colorado chassis. They're over off Vasquez behind a & e tire in Commerce city
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Don’t use any alignment shop that has computers with pads you put your steer axle on.
Use a shop that uses MD Alignments procedures.
Go to their website and find one in the area you are going to be in.
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I do my own alignment. Just set the toe 1/8” in or so and I’m done. Tools; measuring tape, bottle jack, 15/16 socket(or whatever size the tie rod is) and a pipe wrench. Oops, forgot the spray paint, and a 2x4 with a long nail thru it to mark the line when the paint is still slightly wet.
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Hey fellas thanks for the input. I stopped by a place that did free inspections. King pins are ever so slightly loose. I couldn't really see it with my pry bar at home by myself. Was easy for them to see with nice equipment and two guys. I am going to run out these tires since they are all messed up already and then do king pins and then alignment and then new tires.
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When I grease my king pins, I raise the axle(one at a time)to take make sure the grease gets all around the pin. Just my peace of mind.Rideandrepair, mtoo, Oxbow and 1 other person Thank this.
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I honestly think my biggest problem right now is my tires are out of balance. I tried those beads again with this set of new tires. I haven't ever had good luck with those. Taking my tires to get them actually machine balanced in the morning. If they can't get them balanced good I will replace the tires probably. The king pins are "technically" in specification. But they will need replaced sooner rather.
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I had a set of Kelly steer tires a while back, soon as I had them installed I noticed something wasn’t right. Even added those ring balancer thingy’s and still wasn’t right. Long story short, I took it to one of those old school alignment shops where they spin the tire on the truck, soon as the driver side started spinning, it was shaking the whole truck. The tech said it was an “Out of Round” tire. He then checked the passenger side and that was fine. I ended up with another set of steers, Firestones. Solved my problem, it drove like a brand new truck.Constant Learner, Rideandrepair, Oxbow and 1 other person Thank this.
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Yeah I bought some cheaper tires cause I didn't trust my current alignment and one is way out of round. I think the beads made it worse. So we will see if they can even close to balance it. If not they sell tires! Get these recapped as drives for later use.Rideandrepair, Oxbow and Diesel Dave Thank this.
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I remember some tire shops had a machine to cut the out-of-round off of brand new tires years ago.Diesel Dave and Rideandrepair Thank this.
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