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Originally Posted by tmoble
the way that A-arm is adjusted is all wrong too. Put the front in about the center and the back all the way in towards the engine. The way it is now your caster is bass-ackwards making the whole thing look awful.
The upper ball joint should be behind the lower like 1/4 to 1/2" to start. Eyeball it.
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I noticed that in the first photo. I'd put both front and back in the middle of the slot to start and get it to the front end shop. There is no sense trying to get it closer until all of the weight is back on the car including nose, bumper, ac if you run it and the interior. A hundred pounds or so will change the readings again if you do.
You can set the toe in with a tape measure by jacking up each wheel and marking a stripe around the middle of the tread with a pencil while you turn the tire slowly and then measuring from pencil mark to pencil mark front and back on each tire and subtracting the front measurement from the back measurement. You always want to bounce the vehicle a few times after you let it down off the jack to level it out though.
As for the front springs Mustang II's shipping weight ran between 2620 lbs and 2866 lbs but if you ever looked under the hood of one a lot of the engine weight was in front of the front axle line and the cars were/are weight biased to the front a lot more than our trucks are.