RocketcarX
95% of my weight is fuel
Holy heck that thing had to have been at it for a while! glad it worked out for you man.
Not following you on the loosening the pinch bolt. As long as the bolt is in the ball joint's grove, you're good. Having the rack loose, but NOT touching the tie rod toe adjustments, your toe-in should be very close to before the work was done. But, bolting the rack back in may not put the rack back exactly where it was before. This would only make your steering wheel be off center (or off from where it was before the work) and not affect toe-in.
As for milage, I had detectable play in my ball joints @60K. And at 110K I finally got around to changing them when I did the A arm bushings. (prothane)
No it doesn't, there is no adjustment, not to mention the production parts used.If you replace the A-arms it needs an alignment. Period. There is no way the arms that he took off match the arms that were on it. Get it aligned. An alignment is cheap compared to reducing the life of tires.