Hi Lyle,

My daughter bounced off a curb with her '83 about 10 years ago. I replaced the control arm, obviously bent, the sway bar end link, also obvious, and probably unnecessarily, the sway bar itself. Pick'n'pull prices.

I've done a lot of eyeball toe-in settings on 240's, and it seems if I can see the toe-in, the steering is stable and straight. On the other hand, I've replaced a lot of tires worn before their time, and on the whole I can't be sure I haven't actually wasted money by not getting a professional alignment. At least several times I avoided the sting of shelling out for a "4-wheel thrust alignment" in which one or maybe both tie rods get tweaked and that's the end of it.

Surely if it doesn't drive straight after the repair, you'll be doing something about it, but it probably does, and so I'm beginning to think there is indeed enough slop in those bolts to possibly shorten the life of a set of tires. Advice I see here in the forum seems to be find a shop with Hunter equipment. I like the printout that comes with the tie rod adjustment for $70.
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Art Benstein near Baltimore

If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely invisible.