Always use backup redundant car support system to prevent injury or death.

Turntable works so well I can roll tires back and forth w/ full weight of car on turntable.

 

Ok, I see plate steel, ball bearings, vaseline jelly and some sort of mat? Got all of that in the bedroom but still can't see what you did with it?

It looks like the mat with the fleur-de-lis has holes in it for the ball bearings to sit in?

I'm in TN too, near Nashville, can I bring my coupe by for a DIY learners alignment when it's running? J/K but I do hope to learn how to align my car myself now that I've added roller perches, fixed camber bolts, adjustable strut rods, etc. to make it more accurate when I set it and to make it stay set longer.

You should put all of these tips & pics in one DIY alignment post as there all needed at the same time when doing an alignment.
Jon

 

Jon you would be surprised how easy it is to duplicate alignment figures of the shop's $30,000 machine. I quit alignment shops because had some bad experiences.

Be happy to show you. Hope your car will be ready for spring.

I made the alignment plates because they are important and could not find one cheap.

No use for any of those things in my bedroom so I took them to garage.

Idea is for front wheels to have near zero friction so suspension is settled out and not binding.

I used 3/8" ***** and a 1/4" cutting board to hold ball bearings in place.

Bearings are sandwiched between 2 steel plates.

 

Ok, makes sense now, you drilled holes in the cutting board just bigger than the ball bearings so they could spin and plates go top/bottom of it.

I do plan to learn for the same reason of not being able to find a GOOD alignment shop, NTB did my first one after I put on all new front end and didn't even adjust the strutrod ends, I left them snug but not compressed and they were the same way when I picked it up! They had no idea what the strutrods did!
Jon

 

65 mustang requires shims to adjust caster and camber. Amazing how some shops will "align" 65 even though the shop doesn't have shims.

Shop worked on my 67 about 4 hours and had to call in a second mechanic.
End result close except spec sheet I gave them read "Camber 0.5 neg".
They dialed in 0.5 positive. They couldn't get caster I wanted cause they didn't have shims.

 

Very nice.

 

I use several sheets of wax paper under the front tires on a smooth area of concrete (and you can turn the wheels by hand). A good ole string and level. I normally try for as much caster as I can get on 65 and 66's (shim the struts). After a test drive, tweak it if necessary. The wax paper will cost you about $1.50 or less.

 

Can you rotate tires by hand or turn right/left by hand?

 

I modify the '65-'66 strut rods on my lathe to get more caster of of them. A few greased floor tiles works great for a DIY turntable.

 

One of my non-asbestos floor tiles broke; very brittle in the winter.

Can you rotate (roll) tire back and forth on greased floor tiles?