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Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone
Dean, I'll bet the specs for those are already in the available software.
Just for fun, try setting up for a 62 Tempest with a straight 12 bolt rear on a new hunter machine. LOL
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Mark, I dont have access to a 62 Tempest, but I wish I did.
As for the Hunter machine, all I can say is this. I questioned the Hunter tech guy about this years ago. He said that the offset was not built into the specs. The offset, he said, was calculated during the calibration of the alignment head.
As for my own experiance, I can only give these examples.
I had a customer with a dually that only ran the inner duals in the winter. He came for an alignment and I aligned his truck with only the inner dual on in the rear. About a month later he was in for other repairs and asked if I could check his alignment because his truck pulled to the right. Now he had both duals on the rear. I checked his alignment and it was right where I had set it. As it turns out, he had a bad right front tire.
Recently, here at Wegners, I had to align a Sebring that came from the body shop. When I got it the spare was on the R/F corner. I questioned why I was aligning it with the spare on and was told the vehicle was under time constraints and needed to be rushed through the shop. The wheel was scratched and out for refinish. So I set up the car and did the alignment with the spare on. The spare is the same diameter as the factory tire, but is very narrow compared to the factory wheel. It clearly was narrower by 3 inches and it was very visable that the head on that corner sat in more than the rest. Of course as I finished the alignment, the wheel arrived. So I installed the wheel and rechecked the alignment. It was right where I had set it with the skinny spare.
I have also checked my Malibu both ways. Using a spindle mount gauge gave me the same readings as the machine.
Take care, Dean