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Need alignment in East Tennessee

Posted: 6/10/24 9:02amMessage 1 of 8
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Sweetwater, TN - USA
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I basically have completely replaced everything dealing with rear drive line. New differential, catastrophic failure in the original, trailing arms, shock mounts, all u-joints and half shafts. My biggest challenge now is finding a shop that will do a 4 wheel alignment on the car. It's a 74. I'm located in East Tennessee, anyone have a suggestion.


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Re: Need alignment in East Tennessee

Posted: 6/10/24 7:51pmMessage 2 of 8
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Vette(s): 1973 Orange Metallic Coupe (orig owner), L82, 4 spd (WR), PS, (A/C & PW (I installed from wrecked 73)), leather, AM/FM Stereo, ran with '65 FI unit earlier & will again some day. 2023 Accelerate Yellow HTC Stingray

Since a lot of today's vehicle have IRS then I would think most shops could do a four-wheel alignment. 

1973 L-82 4 spd

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Re: Need alignment in East Tennessee

Posted: 6/11/24 3:49pmMessage 3 of 8
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I agree with you there. The response I keep getting is, "We don't work on cars that old". I think the shims scare them.

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Re: Need alignment in East Tennessee

Posted: 6/11/24 4:01pmMessage 4 of 8
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Cana, VA - USA
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I had my '75 aligned last year locally (SW Virginia) -- their only concern was if it was too low to get in their shop and onto the lift.

   

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Re: Need alignment in East Tennessee

Posted: 6/11/24 4:16pmMessage 5 of 8
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Sweetwater, TN - USA
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SW Virginia is very doable. My car is not lowered, as a matter of fact I think it sets high. Did they do a good job?

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Re: Need alignment in East Tennessee

Posted: 6/11/24 4:50pmMessage 6 of 8
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Cana, VA - USA
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They have the computer alignment setup, and as far as I can tell, it is fine.  The nice thing about these new systems is that they provide a color printout of all the alignment specifics.

This shop is actually in Mt. Airy NC, but I can't believe any decent shop can't do the same thing.

 

   

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Re: Need alignment in East Tennessee

Posted: 8/8/26 3:27pmMessage 7 of 8
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Did you ever located a shop to do the alignment? Starting restoration of a 1969 and will need alignment done at some point. I am near Knoxville.

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Re: Need alignment in East Tennessee

Posted: 8/8/26 9:21pmMessage 8 of 8
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The problem is finding a shop/individual that's old enough to know HOW to do a proper rear wheel alignment on these cars. These are NOT easy to do, and most shops will only set the camber, and not touch the toe, due to the difficulty of adding/removing the shims on the front of the trailing arms. Even Corvette related shops may not be able/want to do them. It's a dying art, and chances of finding a shop that can/will do a '63-'82 rear alignment is getting extremely slim. 😔

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