i placed a want ad on craiglist to find a local expert with old school front end alignments. someone was nice enough to lead me to a guy that has been doing this for years a has an old school rack AND frame repair service. i am going to try to get it over there. i am going to try to get more info out of the ford tech this am. i think that he was real frustrated with the job yesterday. they are going to only charge me the flat $79 and he had to eat the rest. maybe he will be more informative today...or maybe he just goes by the lasers with no clue of the geometrics.