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After Alignment, truck seems to "float"

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2003
It's really hard to explain. I've had my '03 for a year now and it never had an alignment done. Yesterday at my school we did one and found out my rear toe was out at a ridiculous amount, so we corrected it. did the fronts too and it was all centered up according to the computer.

the steering wheel is off center to the left a few degrees which is a suspicion of mine at the moment but:

I was driving home on the highway and was following a left curve of the highway and it felt as if the truck had 4 wheel steering; the ass end felt like it was trying to slide out, but it wasn't (i was not speeding or driving like a jerk) and my passenger noticed it too.

There's no body supports missing and it never did this before yesterday.

What on earth is going on?
 



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Obviously something with the alighment is not right. You'll have to re do it. Rear toe should not really be off unless there is something loose or someone has replaced parts.
 






You said you did it in school, I had shop class and we were fortunate enough to have an alignment machine as well, more often than not one of the sensors that you put on the wheel get bumped and messes everything up, im betting thats what happened here to you, so what may have looked like out of whack was actually correct, and trying to correct it your class just made it worse.
 






Mine does the same thing and gets worse with more weight or people in it. I pulled an empty 16' trailer around trip of about 250 miles and it was a fight the whole time. This thing fishtails a little all the time, seems like the tires are low but I've checked psi many times and with different gauges to compare psi and its no different with the gauges Im using. Any info on this you can get would be a help to me also.
 






took it back in on monday and spent another three hours re doing someone didn't do a proper caster sweep and it offset everything she rides like a dream now
 






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