Rear wheel alignment

Stevehose

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After dropping the rear subframe, I have managed to replace the rear wheel bearings, parking brake shoes and hardware, reboot and repack the half-shafts, new calipers, new frame, trailing arm, and sway bar bushings, differential support as well as waxoiling and painting. This was a very greasy, messy, dirty job with lots of BFH'ing and cursing.

About to put it back in the car. The blue book says the alignment is done by loosening the diff support bolt and sliding the structure left or right??? How do I measure this to get it in the ball park, and how does an alignment shop adjust it, there doesn't seem to be any way to dial it in with any precision? Do alignment shops these days know what to do with a car like ours?
 
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The alignment machines will measure rear axle parameters, such as toe, and display it real-time so, presumably, by moving the assembly as you said should show the changes on the machine.
 
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