[leftfield6]

Great advice all. i DID adjust the parking brake shoes, so maybe I need to back that off a notch or two

So I took it down the street to a closed for the night office park to do my brake pad bedding process. Nice big empty parking lot.

Well, did not get it done. Two high speed (60 mph) accelerations and hard braking convinced me to get my azz back to my garage. Had a serious pucker moment. Apparently my "ballpark alignment" using the paint marks from the old suspension is nowhere close. The back end was all over the place not during the braking, but during the hard acceleration. It was ALL OVER THE PLACE. So I headed home (less than 1/2 mile) at a pretty slow pace.

When I eyeball my rear wheels, it looks like I have excessive toe in. Maybe a little more on the driver's side tire. So I did a really really basic check. I marked a spot on both tires about 4 inches from the ground, both on the front side of the tire and the backside, right in the middle of the tread. My tires have a prominent center groove, so I used that as my reference. I then stretched a tape measure from tire to tire on the front of the tires. 57 3/4 inches center of tire to center of tire. Then I did the same on the back of the tire 59 1/4.

Yikes, that can't be good. Think I better lay off any high speed maneuvers until I get the alignment done.