How to Adjust Your Steering Alignment by Yourself | 1995 Ford F150

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what's going on guys Stevie from the min masters here and today I'm showing you how to adjust the steering on your truck as I mentioned in a previous video hopefully you watched it it's my third brake light on the back of the truck I mentioned how I do these five to ten minute projects when I come home from work and some it's not always repair sometimes a little tweak you know I drive this thing all the time this is my daily driver and I know it for the most part inside now so I know when some things need a little tweaking correcting and so one of these things is my steering so my steering wheel has to be slightly turned to the right in order for the wheels to go straight something I'm sure a lot of you just live with well I've decided I don't want to live with it anymore and I'm also afraid that if I give somebody in my truck they won't exactly point the steering wheel in the correct direction you know when they're driving and my baby won't come back in one piece but it's a simple fix so here we go so here we are this is your drag linked steering okay pretty much called that because your steering box is right here and it just drags these two pieces around side to side okay now it is composed of your to drag arms here and then on either end you have your tie rod and then you have your tie rod adjusting sleeves now your tie rod adjusting sleeve is what adjust as your tie rod in and out which is what adjust your tow as it's known which is your wheels pointed in pointed out or pointed both straight okay so in this case I'm gonna assume since the last alignment that they are pointed straight positive or you know 0 2 or as most places do it slightly in okay which tow in tow in allows the the truck to steer straight even though there might be some even with a lot of play in the steering wheel tow out can make this thing really dartie like it's gonna want to turn on a dime so we're gonna try not to mess with those settings the only thing I want to do is adjust the wheels so if my steering wheel is turned like this and my wheels are straight my wheels need to go in line with the steering wheel which in this case means this one is going to to be pushed out this way and this one is gonna have to come in this way so right here on the tie-rod adjusting sleeve i have taken some sharpie and written some tick marks all at the quarter marks okay that way I'm gonna adjust this a quarter turn at a time and then of course I've written on here which way to go so turning it toward the back of the truck adjust this thing out and obviously forward brings it in okay now do you where you have some movement over here in your tie rod okay and now probably for me you know maybe a little too much and so when you go to adjust this thing make sure this thing comes to a full stop and then you make this adjustment where your thing will be just kind of all over the place okay so what I'm gonna do here is I'm going to to make a quarter turn at a time and then I'll go test drive so one thing you want to know is with steering it's very small corrections to get what could be a rather noticeable difference so don't go in there start turning it a whole bunch of times thinking that's gonna be what's gonna do the thick so you're gonna start driving and you're gonna be all over the place so very very small turns and you go drive it you figure out if that's what works for you so guys I hope this helps you adjust the steering in your truck and I'm can't wait to drive my truck and see if it tracks the way I want to so hit the subscribe icon over here check out some of my other videos i'm steven from the minute masters thanks for watching
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Channel: Minute Masters
Views: 170,267
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Keywords: how to do a front end alignment, how to align steering wheel, how to adjust steering wheel, bolero steering adjustment, how to align wheels yourself, steering alignment, steering wheel alignment, truck wheel alignment, wheel alignment at home, truck alignment, how to adjust tie rod ends, how to fix steering wheel alignment, how to straighten steering wheel, f150 alignment, tie rod adjustment, crooked steering wheel, The minute masters, 1995 Ford F-150, Front end alignment
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Length: 3min 47sec (227 seconds)
Published: Fri Mar 15 2019
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