[T3] Alignment questions

["Everett Barnes" <everettb@thesamba.com>]

<x-flowed>I took my '63 to get aligned on Friday and this morning.

On Friday, I explained how to align it and they understood.  When I came to 
pick it up, they reported the toe in was way off so they set that.  They did 
not set the camber because he thought the adjustment screws might be frozen 
because the tie rods were quite hard to adjust.  I insisted they adjust it 
per the owner's manual specs and brought it back today.

Today they set everything up per the specs and now it pulls left!

I drove home because I lost confidence in their abilities.

Questions:
1. They set the camber to 1.2 degrees on both sides (from my digital "laser" 
alignment printout).  The spec. is 1 degree, 20 minutes so shouldn't that be 
1.3333 degrees?
2. Same with the toe-in, it's set to .45 degrees.  The spec is 40 minutes so 
isn't that .66666 degrees?

I verified that the bottom ball joints were left pointing forward per my 
instructions.

The upper left ball joint has the little line pointing backwards a small 
amount.  Shouldn't they all generally point in the forward direction?  Can I 
just rotate it 180 degrees until I have time to take it to a better 
alignment shop?

- Everett

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