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Torsion twist/alignment/wheel angle question

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Ok first of all, does anyone remember how which way the angle of the wheels changes when you did your torsion twist by tightening the bolts to lift the truck? Did the bottoms of the tires go inward more or outward? Secondly, when is a camber adjustment needed? - either when you lift or drop the front using torsion twist or just in one of the above cases and not the other? Is it needed only when you tighten or loosen the bolts a lot or even with a 1" or so change? I did only a little twist to even the height of the front of the truck to the back (after getting new rims and tires) got an alignment, the front wheels are spread out more on the bottom and the guy says its normal, dont remember how stock looked but I dont want to mess up the tread on new tires. Anyone?
 






after any lift, get an alignment... it may not look off, but the human eye cant distinguish 2 degrees like a computer can....
 






im after an alignment a week ago and thats why i have a problem with this, the left front wheel is not that bad whereas the right one has a neg camber of about 1" (measured from vertical plane on the rim). guy said i dont need any expensive camber adjusters and that everything is fine but it sure doesnt look fine to me. i guess he either reached the limit of what can be adjusted with a simple alignment or he doesnt know what hes doing at all. thats why i was asking if anyone knows whether tightening the torsion bolts will help get rid of negative camber or make it worse so I could deal with it that way and lift it a little more in the process. im going back there to see what he says anyway today.
 






Just an update:
getting shims to fix the negative camber on one side, the other side doesnt need them, weird
 






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