This ok to do? Or a very bad idea? All input/thoughts/opinions/experiences welcome.

 

Honestly don't do it get it to a alignment shop first.

 

Ya the trails are gonna kill your tires lol. I always take mine out in the gravel pit behind the shop for a quick shake down before I do an alignment. There easy enough to do yourself

 

Line it up yourself.

All an alignment shop is going to do is set the toe and straight the steering wheel if you're lucky.

You can do that with a tape measure and 10 minutes.

Set the toe toe 1/8" in.

Then go wheel.

 

Here's how.

http://www.4x4xplor.com/alignment.html

 

Like he says, do it at home, its pretty easy. As far as before you go wheeling, how much driving is involved to get there? If its close and you are not that far out of alignment probly no big deal, but if you are driving a lot of pavement it could wear your tires funny and or cause a death wobble

 

Either get it done, or do it yourself. Driving un-aligned is not fun. My front tires were worn down very uneven just from a month of driving before getting it aligned. I will never make that mistake again.

 

mine's lifted three inches and I still haven't got it aligned. drives better now than it did before and the tires are wearing evenly

 

ouch. just went out and measured it, i'm sitting at roughly 9/16" toe in. reckon I should fix that!

I got a feeling it's more from the slightly bent tie rod than from the lift though

 

Well that's not surprising. XJ factory tie rods suck.

 

Throw a ZJ rod on there instead. My XJ was actually better aligned after I lifted it as well.

 

I had an inch of toe in on my jeep but that was because my tie rod was touching my diff cover