Adjusting toe alignment on a 2014 Tundra

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to adjust my toe alignment and have a question about it. Do I need to adjust both tie rods or just one tie rod? If just one tie rod, does it matter the driver side or passenger side? Reason I ask is because I can NOT remove that damn jam nut! I've tried PB Blaster and heat, but it won't budge! the only way I can get the nut to turn is with a jack, but it turns very slow and when it loosens, it's still stuck on the tie rod where it's impossible to turn it by hand with a wrench. This is on the driver side. Just checking to see if it's okay to adjust the toe alignment on the passenger tie rod only. I would think you only need to adjust one side but I'm no professional. Thanks in advance!

 

why bother trying to do a front end alignment yourself? You dont have the equipment to do it properly and within spec.

Have a pro do it, it is not expensive. I get mine done about once a year or as needed and cost it like $100

 

I do my own alignments at home but if I ran into the problem you have, options are to let a shop try or you can remove/replace tierod (inner & outer). Shop might still end up replacing the part anyway if they mess up threads loosening it.

 

You can adjust toe into spec with just one side but depending on where everything ends up you may end up with the steering wheel off-center. It won't hurt anything other than your OCD if you have any of that.

 

^^ true.
it would bug me too much having steering wheel look off center though on mine.

 

You can do it on one side only. The steering wheel will be slightly off. Stability control may need to be recalibrated if the steering is too off the center.

 

A proper equipment for toe alignment is well under $100. I've used that for a few years with great success: https://www.ebay.com/itm/300814333955 This is all you need for Tundra. For 4WD IRS cars/SUVs where thrust vector is an issue you need a better setup, but I've got it as well. And guess what? I finally aligned my old Volvo. Paid for alignment many times over years, to many shops, including dealers and specialized tire/alignment shops with $50k alignment racks, only to figure out they did not do it properly.



I understand $1600 is a bit too much for most of us, but $100 TrackAce kicks asses.

 

The techs at the alignment shop are a f*cking joke!!! They don’t even know how to make the steering wheel straight!! I’ve done alignments on my own many times with manual alignment tools at home and never a single issue and also used that $100 saved for a tank of gas!

 

I actually use these cheap alignment plates and two tape measures. It actually works awesome.

 

On our old wheelers, we’d just poke a thumb tack into a tread block on each front tire. Measure with the tacks at the rear, then rotate tires so tacks are in the front. Measure that, then you’d know how far to adjust the tie rod.