tire or something rubbing
 

ok guys i have a 65 mustang and i just got an alignment job. and now something is rubbing when i turn to the left. also i have noticed that the passenger side tire is about 1 1/2 from the fender in the front. and the other side is about 3 inches. can anyone help me with this.
thanks

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i think what you should do is take it back to them and tell them the problem, if they dont believe you tell them to drive it - they should fix it for free if they messed up ...which sounds like they did

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problem is the alignment shop is 100 miles away. i cant seem to find any spot on the tire or fender where it is rubbing. could it be something else making the sound when i turn?

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is it possible that something they did effected the power steering.

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I've had 2 situations like this...

1. the tire was rubbing fender... it dented it a bit from the inside... I did some tweaking to the alignment of the fender to fix it...
2. the wheel (mag) was rubbing against the upper control arm as I turned hard. This left some metal shavings and a mark where it was hitting. I hit the area with a die grinder until it was quiet, then I did it a little more to prove a point to the control arm...

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well ive run into this before myself (in dallas) until i moved back to my hometown and knew the guy at our alignment shop and had him put my 71 on his snapon comp, alignment mach.and i had found the factory specs for my camber and caster settings ride height ect.(which i tweaked a lil) most of the time the guys these days if you take your car into a shop they dont have these settings, so they do it and ill quote (i got it close as i could) :rolleyes: i also took a buddys 67 fb and done it a year ago and it drives great too...if you can find someone that can even get these settings anywhere in the ballpark it should be fine.. here is some settings for your 65....must remind you that these are not factory settings these are settings for radial tires, so i also put the specified setting too...hope this helps in some way....how many guys have got your car back and the steering wheel be off? if so you may be at the wrong alingment shop.

Caster= 1.2 deg / 1.3 deg. (specified -1.0 deg. to 1.0 deg)
Camber= .2 deg / .3 deg. (specified -.3 deg to 1.3 deg)
Toe= .04 deg / .04 deg. (specified .13 deg to .38 deg)

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Perhaps a stupid question but would those settings work on a '67? I put Scott Drake wheels and new tires on my coupe and had the treatment you described when I took the car to the local Kwik Kar place for an alignment. "We got it as close as we could but it's not quite right". Thanks. E.

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i think i may have the 67 settings ill look for them, we used them on my buddys 67..ill post um on here.. ;)

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heres one set of settings for a 67
http://links.vintage-mustang.com/index.html?faq
but i found these and it has some road race settings too...
http://mustangandfords.com/techartic...98/index5.html
hope these will help ya or at least give a baseline setup...

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i think i know what mite have happend, i think they alligned it like a 67-69 and used the strutrod to set the caster insted of shimming the upper control arm. i replaced the upperball joint thinking that that mite be why, when i did i didnt see any shimms in the uper control arm. let me know what you guys think..
thanks for the help.
matt