Used to rely on the old rope-and-pulley method for leveling cabs, but after a rough install last spring where the car was off by almost half an inch, I switched to a laser alignment tool and now I’m done in half the time.

What changed for me was watching an old timer in Brooklyn zip through a job with a laser, and I haven’t touched a plumb line since - has anyone else made the switch and seen a big difference in accuracy?

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the_dakota15d ago

Did a buddy of mine finally try a laser after fighting with a bubble level on his rig for years? He said it cut a 45-minute job down to 15.

the_dakota15d ago

The real sneaky benefit nobody talks about with lasers is how they handle curved or crowned streets. I was working on a block in Queens last month where the road itself is shaped like a speed bump, and my laser picked up a bubble in the middle that a level or plumb line would have totally missed. That little tilt would have thrown the whole cab off by a quarter inch once the weight settled. A buddy of mine still swears by his string line for that exact reason, but I showed him the math on drift that day.