Reply to "Rear Wheels Leaning In?"

Charlie,
Not really. When you raise the car totally off the ground, you take most of the loading off the cross member. Adjusting it at that point so it's snug and putting equal pressure on both sides, as long as both sides are even with the placement of the cross member in relation to the inter fender wells. When you lower it back onto the tires is when you are actually fully loading the cross member.

For it to perform as it should, it has to be fully loaded when on the ground.

You would never be able to completely pre-load it with the wheels still on the ground unless you were King Kong. Let alone get the member out or in for that matter.

That's how I was taught to do it....and my tires are wearing evenly.

If your tires are wearing on the inside, my first guess is that your not loading enough and they are collapsing inward.