Grassroots Motorsports LIVE! on Wednesday February 28: How to Make a DIY String Alignment Rig

We wanted to see how inexpensively we could build a setup rig to accurately complete four-wheel alignments. Components included wood, string and even kitchen cutting boards. We’ll share our successes and failures tonight on Grassroots Motorsports LIVE! presented by CRC industries.

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oh man. need to make time for this one.

I have a hard time watching live but I always catch up on the youtube channel!  I wish I could watch tonight.

Keep up the great work!

Hey, that's tonight. Guess I should see what craft services has for us tonight. 

Oooh, and it's the later airtime too.

I'll be watching!

 Thank you so much for making it later air time! 

Trackmouse said:

 Thank you so much for making it later air time! 

I can fart like a beagle, and fight like a duck.

You guys are freaking me out because it's always been at 9pm eastern. Has my entire life to this point been some sort of an elaborate ruse?

Oh perfect, I've been planning to put together a DIY alignment setup in the next few weeks and I never seem to catch these at the right time. This worked out perfectly!

In reply to JG Pasterjak :

I thought for a while you were alternating between 4pm or so and 9pm?  I could be remembering that wrong though...

So how did you know your steering was at "zero" before you started measuring for toe?

paranoid_android said:

In reply to JG Pasterjak :

I thought for a while you were alternating between 4pm or so and 9pm?  I could be remembering that wrong though...

So how did you know your steering was at "zero" before you started measuring for toe?

We bailed off the early shows over a year ago. Just couldn't get a consistent audience.

For zeroing the wheel, I just eyeball it. Nice thing about Corvettes is with the four spoke wheel you have these nice index marks to line up with the dash.

While eyeballing you can make sure the steering wheel goes the same distance in both rotation directions - that way you also know you are at the center of the rack.

If you have ever disconnected the steering linkage anywhere it's a good check.

Thanks, everyone, for joining us last night. Lots of good questions.