Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Jeff Ford is back on Kylie's 1967 Mustang hardtop, and this time he's chasing a problem that's been driving him nuts — every time he tries to push this car into the shop, it wanders like a wild weasel. That's camber and toe screaming for help. The good news: you can get a classic Ford's front end close to right in your own driveway with nothing fancier than a tape measure, a magnetic level, and a little patience — close enough, in a lot of cases, to safely roll it onto the rack at your local alignment shop.
In this one Jeff walks through the DIY basics of a front-end alignment at home, in the order that actually matters: camber, caster, toe. He shows you how to confirm your lower control arms and strut rods are sitting where they should before you measure a thing, how to use 3/8" alignment shims on '67-and-up cars to pull more caster, and how to set camber with a cheap magnetic angle gauge right off the rotor face. Then comes the redneck-genius stuff that actually works — a split contractor bag and a little grease for homemade turn plates, and a length of aluminum angle to check your toe against the tires. He's hunting about 1/8" of toe-in and a half-degree of negative camber for radials, and he's honest about why a car with no sheet metal up front won't quite hit the numbers until it's back at ride height.
Along the way Jeff diagnoses a steering box that's flat wore out — crunchy, loose, and overdue for a Borgeson box and a manual-steer drag link from National Parts Depot — and shows you the right way to set up new tie-rod sleeves so your inner and outer ends start together and adjust true.
If you own a classic Mustang, a vintage Ford, or any muscle car headed for the alignment rack, this is the real-world, do-it-at-home lesson that'll save you a wasted trip and a wasted dollar. It's not the be-all, end-all — it's the fit and fiddle that classic car life is really made of.
☕ Want to support the show? Grab a t-shirt or jump on Patreon at the $10/month level for monthly Zoom hangouts and Trivia Night, where we give away custom shirts featuring YOUR car. Every shirt and pledge goes straight to Joseph and the editor who make these videos happen — not to Jeff.
T-shirts help pay Joseph, our teenage production assistant who's putting every dollar into his XJ Jeep. Grab one and you're funding a kid's first build.
Patreon at the $10 level gets you monthly Zoom meetings with Jeff plus Trivia Night, where the prize is a one-off t-shirt with YOUR car on it.
It's not a problem, it's a project.
—
▶ Autorestomod is proudly sponsored by National Parts Depot — [https://www.npdlink.com]
SUPPORT THE SHOW
▶ Patreon — $10/month gets you monthly Zoom meetings with me: [patreon.com/c/gasolinemedia]
▶ Merch — "Needs More Classic Cars" shirts, hats & mugs at Fourth Wall: [autorestomod-shop.fourthwall.com/]
Autorestomod Episode: 753
autorestomod-shop.fourthwall.com
Sponsors:
nationalpartsdepot.com
eatondetroitspring.com
Contact: Jford@autorestomod.com
Insta: @autorestomod
patreon.com/gasolinemedia.
Jeff Ford is back on Kylie's 1967 Mustang hardtop, and this time he's chasing a problem that's been driving him nuts — every time he tries to push this car into the shop, it wanders like a wild weasel. That's camber and toe screaming for help. The good news: you can get a classic Ford's front end close to right in your own driveway with nothing fancier than a tape measure, a magnetic level, and a little patience — close enough, in a lot of cases, to safely roll it onto the rack at your local alignment shop.
In this one Jeff walks through the DIY basics of a front-end alignment at home, in the order that actually matters: camber, caster, toe. He shows you how to confirm your lower control arms and strut rods are sitting where they should before you measure a thing, how to use 3/8" alignment shims on '67-and-up cars to pull more caster, and how to set camber with a cheap magnetic angle gauge right off the rotor face. Then comes the redneck-genius stuff that actually works — a split contractor bag and a little grease for homemade turn plates, and a length of aluminum angle to check your toe against the tires. He's hunting about 1/8" of toe-in and a half-degree of negative camber for radials, and he's honest about why a car with no sheet metal up front won't quite hit the numbers until it's back at ride height.
Along the way Jeff diagnoses a steering box that's flat wore out — crunchy, loose, and overdue for a Borgeson box and a manual-steer drag link from National Parts Depot — and shows you the right way to set up new tie-rod sleeves so your inner and outer ends start together and adjust true.
If you own a classic Mustang, a vintage Ford, or any muscle car headed for the alignment rack, this is the real-world, do-it-at-home lesson that'll save you a wasted trip and a wasted dollar. It's not the be-all, end-all — it's the fit and fiddle that classic car life is really made of.
☕ Want to support the show? Grab a t-shirt or jump on Patreon at the $10/month level for monthly Zoom hangouts and Trivia Night, where we give away custom shirts featuring YOUR car. Every shirt and pledge goes straight to Joseph and the editor who make these videos happen — not to Jeff.
T-shirts help pay Joseph, our teenage production assistant who's putting every dollar into his XJ Jeep. Grab one and you're funding a kid's first build.
Patreon at the $10 level gets you monthly Zoom meetings with Jeff plus Trivia Night, where the prize is a one-off t-shirt with YOUR car on it.
It's not a problem, it's a project.
—
▶ Autorestomod is proudly sponsored by National Parts Depot — [https://www.npdlink.com]
SUPPORT THE SHOW
▶ Patreon — $10/month gets you monthly Zoom meetings with me: [patreon.com/c/gasolinemedia]
▶ Merch — "Needs More Classic Cars" shirts, hats & mugs at Fourth Wall: [autorestomod-shop.fourthwall.com/]
Autorestomod Episode: 753
autorestomod-shop.fourthwall.com
Sponsors:
nationalpartsdepot.com
eatondetroitspring.com
Contact: Jford@autorestomod.com
Insta: @autorestomod
patreon.com/gasolinemedia.
