Wheel Alignment at Home (Tacoma DIY / How To) 

This is very well explained. I'm not much of a mechanic, but I live in a remote area. I have to do these things myself if I can. Or else I have to drive a long distance to a mechanic, leave my vehicle for a whole day, and pay a lot of money. Thank you for helping me Kflo.

Great explanation brother. At least now I know where my 120 bucks is going while I watch this local tire shop do my alignment for me lol cheers

This is the best video on tire alignment I have ever seen. You are a very smart and very generous man for sharing the knowledge. I am experienced at adjusting the toe in and toe out by myself. I may get ball joint spacers and want to be able to adjust the camber if it is affected. I've learned (the hard way) over the last 52 years of driving to ALWAYS do your own work or you will regret it for years and years afterwards. I'd rather cut my car up into little pieces than let a shop touch it at all. Nobody lets me work on their cars so why should I let somebody work on mine? The money has to come from somewhere.

Your gift for connecting with people, and your ability to break down the process, is spot on man . Keep up the good work . I am subscribed .

Thank you! I just isntalled a new suspenion kit and upper control a-arms. The alignment was all jacked after and your guide helped me get it back to before. Never thought I'd be able to do the alignment myself.

Thanks KFlo! Just finished a lift on the Tacoma and need to make sure I'm at least close. Great pictures and explanations. Mahalo!

Love it! Easy to comprehend,Straight forward without all the blabbering. Thanks.

Only video so far I've found that explains to last degail and easy to understand. Thank you and keep it the great work

What a great video. I’m overdue to get my alignment back in check and this might be the cheapest diy I’ve found. Thank you!!!

Thanks a lot man. Difficult to learn and be able to apply all the processes immediately but three new procedures to assimilate and wonderful pictorial explanantions.

K-Flo Thanks for uploading this video. Since I regularly off-road my FJC, I always have to go in for alignment. I will for sure use this video.

That's great.. I remember being the helper for my pops when he did this.

You rock KFlo! Saving me money teaching crucial skills!

what a motivated person... I would've stayed home by this weather ahah

Great rundown! Happy to hone my skills. I am ready to dig in and do it, after the struts.

Great video. Clear and concise with no wasted time. Thanks

Thanks KFLO beach weather soon maybe I will catch you out there soon. Like always awesome DIY videos

EXCELLENT!!!!! Thanks so much for the info.......snow in New Jersey, great for awhile, then it gets OLD......

Read a lot and understand the process and numbers......but.....your sped up videos brings it all home and adds clarity and understanding to the process....THANKS!

Liked and Subscribed! Very Informative video, took a bunch of notes! have a 2003 Tacoma Extended cab, v6. Thanks for the knowledge!! Had an upper ball joint break while driving (driving til the wheels fall offfffff!), removing the ability to "Just take it to the shop". Doing this research while my upper ball joints pressed out/new ones back in! New inner/outter tie rods, and lower ball joints too!

Badass dude... and you did it in the cold! Props! Subcribed!!!

This was actually really useful much appreciated and definitely liked and subscribed

Best succinct explanation ever! Thank you!

Thanks for actually showing the process of adjusting the camber bolts. Couldn’t find another video with that

Great video editing + instructions - keep them up! Subed

Thank's kflo you save my money. Good video, saludos desde Panamá city.

Most comprehensive video I’ve seen on wheel alignments!

great vid" great instructor " Thank u friend"

Great content!

Killer video. Thanks big time!!!

Toe is like when you look at your toes. Perfect explaination 😆

Excellent instructional video !!

Excellent video man, you must have picked the coldest day of the year to do it on though. Braver man then me to do that in that weather.

Thanks!

Thanks for the helpful info

Nice! Thanks

Thanks for your help 👍

You a legend, that clear and easy to follow... I must subscribe damn you awesome at this

Good video

Thanks , you just saved me some money... KUDOS !!!

Great video, thanks

Really good stuff

Thanks! Just needed to see which parts did what because the alignment guy said the bolts were frozen. Going to try and oil them up for a few days and see if that helps and try again later

Exactly what I needed to see how to unlock the camber bolts.

Your videos are great, short and to the point but I would have zero patience to do this lol

Great info useful

Great video.

Good video amigo thanks a lot

I always come back to this video to finish the job after a firestone lifetime alignment.

Thanx

Amazing

Great video. Thank you

Good job

Sorry, I forgot to mention that you need to make sure that the steering wheel is oriented straight forward before you start making your measurements.

Man iam glad I foun you why don't the tire stores tell us .getting ready to do suspension work on my toy 4runner. Ball joints well do here at ihave get alind so thanks iwill the ball joints now here saves me .Allison the best I an thanks again

Great video mate! Just curious, would the settings for the camber tabs be the same for both left and right? My Hilux has different settings on each side lol. I would assume it should be the same right?

Excellent video, best I've seen. Question on the camber bolts for the LCA...when making adjustments to the front camber bolt, do you need to adjust the rear camber bolt exactly the same amount as the front? I'm curious how the control arm behaves if you adjust the front but not the rear...

Thanks as always for the video! Have you seen the square camber tabs? I am thinking of trying but you know more than I do I think you should try them before I do.

Awesome video. If the steering wheel is crooked after I had a "well known alignment shop" do my alignment, twice to fix this issue that was still off after I brought back into the shop..., would I just lock the steering wheel level and check all 3/ redo the alignment? Hesitant on taking it to the dealer to have the half a degree crooked steering wheel fixed, and the crooked steering wheel still be there, it just bothers me. Unless theres an easy adjustment with just using the tierod method? 2022 tacoma 4wd... Again awesome video thank you for sharing, much appreciated.

Excellent video! Question: where is the Spreadsheet with the measurements? Link provided takes me to a different thing - help?

In the snow!

That was a really good video! I am still a little shady in the caster Dept. I did the 3" ifs blocks just have the diff and bar drop left but already some serious positive camber going on. I'm guessing I'm going to be turning these bolts as hard as I can in negative direction but does that nessisarily mean my caster will be affected? It is both front and back bolts on lower control arm I'm turning right 👍🏼?

Camber I think is the trickiest most tedious headache to try to achieve and it takes so much patience

First off, thanks for the video dude. Question on camber: is the goal to achieve zero camber? Or is it like Toe where a slight toe in is/can be the goal?

What would I start with if I have replaced both lowers and the toe was messed with before replacing control arms? I noticed control arm bushing were shot after I had already adjusted on toe.

Hi, quick question. When you retighten the LCA bolts, doesn’t the truck need to be in its resting state with all the weight on the tires? I ask because an alignment shop tightened my LCA bolts when they were under full droop. This put the LCA bushings in a bind and created a loud popping noise when turning the wheel. I loosened the bolts and the bushings relaxed. No more popping. I guess my question is, if you make your adjustments, and then drop the truck off the jacks before tightening the LCA bolts, will that throw your setting off? Thanks!

So if my toe and camber are correct and its now tougher to steer left (its also snaps back to center hard) am I running too much positive caster on the drivers side LCA?

Thank you for the great video. Just one thing I am confused. Looks like it's the same two camber bolts on the lower control arm that adjust both the caster and camber. What makes the difference for adjusting one other than the other? Am I missing anything? Thank you again.

Do you recommend also adjusting the upper control arms cam bolts for camber? Or do I even need to do that? It seems that the alignment shop do not touch the upper control arm bolts. Hence, my camber on my truck is slightly off spec.

I just installed new uca’s is it possible to only adjust the camber ?

Ok buddy I have watched your video over and over still trying to figure this thing out , so if it’s ok can I ask so when doing this alignment should I do the camber first or the caster ? Because in your video I seen after you adjusted your camber you then made another adjustment with the same adjustment bolts going in the opposite direction from each other , wouldn’t that affect the adjustment you had just made to the camber ? So I’m confused to witch one goes first now the camber or Caster

How do you make sure that the toe measurement taken against the fishing line isn't steering input? One way I could think of is to go back and forth between two sides or get 4 jack stands to do both sides simultaneously. Thanks for the vid my man, this is super helpful!

Man I've got a 2002 Tacoma TRD Off Road and I had to have my upper and lower ball joints on both sides replaced- the truck got out of alignment and then the front driver's side wheel fell off in my drive way. Luckily I was going like 5 miles an hour so it didn't do much damage. So i had the upper and lower ball joints on each side as well as the outer tie rod ends replaced. I had the rack and pinion rebuilt last year so now the whole front end is rebuilt. But- when I got it back home, it's still eating up tires, and now it's even worse than before. The wear looks like feathered wear to me- so it's too much toe in or out right? I'm taking it back to the shop that did the work because they were supposed to align it after replacing the ball joints so- they said they would make it right. I'm hoping maybe they just didn't take the time to drive it and recheck the alignment and it just needs more adjustment. I've put like 2 gs into it over the last 2 months getting all this work done and replacing tires- I'm tapped.

Hey just wondering I've had 2 toyotas one was a 1987 22r hilux pickup and now i have a 98 tacoma,it seems like you know about these trucks and i would apreciate your opinion on a few things and maybe i could help you with aomething

I should see u to do my alignment...where in NJ? Im in Woodbridge

Sup buddy, question-will an alignment be needed if upper control arms are replaced? thanks

Great video

Would you still be able to adjust your toe properly if you are running spacers in the front only?

I was told if you jack your truck up in the front to put alignment turn plates under the front tires to bounce the front end to make sure it has completely settled or the camber and caster would be off. Was I told wrong or have you had bad tire wear since you did your alignment with your truck up in the air on jack stands?

What causes bumpsteer on lifted vehicles? I’m hearing caster ?

Do you have aftermarket cam/caster bolts installed on the control arm??

Hey I been looking on the forum but no luck yet , if tacoma 2018 4x4 shocks fits on 2013 2wd 🤔

I have a question on how to fix my left front whole tire that is about an 1 1/2 in inward from all my other tires?

And when adjusting my camber and caster it does have an affect on the toe on my 2002

does all 4 tires need to be off the ground to make adjustments?

Will adjusting the camber fix the nipple on my knuckle rubbing on my inner tire?

I have a tacoma 2003 I took it to be alignment but the tires are wearing down on the inside you could help me since I don't trust the alignment places much

I have a 2008 fj cruiser. Is it the same to adjust as your tacoma?

Hi can you help me please I changed the springs of the front of the truck but in one side of the passenger it was more taller one inch and the truck looks sideways can you tell me how to fix it please or what I have to do I wait for help happy Thanksgiving of las Vegas Nevada thanks 🙏👍

When you jacked it up and put it on jacks we’re they under the A arms or do the A arms just suppose to dangle down ?

Do you know how much one full 360 rotation of the inner rod changes the toe?

Hey so when adjusting camber is the wheel supposed to be centered front to back in the wheel wells?

Should the truck have any negative or positive camber

Is that "Hajime No Ippo", behind you, on the wall?

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I have a Toyota Tacoma truck my front tires are wearing on the inside how do i fix that

When adjusting caster won’t it make you loose camber setting

If you know camber and caster specs can't you just adjust the cams to the given spec? Assuming no worn suspension components shouldn't the the camber and caster be correct? That's what markings are for right?

just wondering how does it ride after the lift ?