@DaBank, see post below from WJCO regarding thrust angle.
As long as you have completed all of the steps in the alignment write-up, you should be good to drive your jeep. Just keep an eye out for tire wear and excessive vibrations.
I don’t mean to oversimplify your issue, but you’ve been doing the deal for 10 years now, yea? You know what works on a JK and what doesn’t.
I bought the Jeep new in 2018 and had it lifted at 200 miles and now it has 50k miles. Jeep just installed a complete new front 44 axle under warranty. When they diagnosed the axle was bent the alignment showed the thrust angle was .20°. Before they installed the new axle I removed and installed all new heim joints in my contorl arms and I adjusted them even.
They did an alignment after the installing the new front axle and did not adjust any of the arm's.
So now that my thrust angle is at .42° vs .20° I double checked my rear arms and they are even, then I checked my welded on frame mounts for my lower rear (only the rear lowers are adjustable) arms and one mount is 1/8" welded on closer towards the rear axle.
So it looks like I need to adjust one side longer if I am going to get my thrust angle at or near zero.
My 1st question do people with lifted Jeeps and everything done correct getting their thrust angle to zero?
My 2nd question based off
@dchew numbers that .42° is close to 1/2" would be how many full turns of my contorl arm would equal to .42°/ 1/2" ?
My 3rd question is my front caster is 3.3° and how many full turns on my front upper contorl arms would get me to 4.5° caster?
I would like to make these adjustments myself to get close to the correct number's because Jeep will recheck the numbers for me after I make the adjustments (they won't adjust the arms) and then I will have a baseline if I need to make anymore adjustments.
Thanks again for all the suggestions/input.
Frank