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Old 03-20-2010, 07:25 PM
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Default My car is sitting tilted and I cant find out why!!!!

To re-fresh everyone's memory.. I nailed a tire/rim on the way back from Goodguys in 2009..
https://lateral-g.net/forums/showthread.php4?t=19936

So I got the rim replaced....took it to an alignment shop.... they said everything was pretty close to the original alignment I had them do before....and everything visually looked okay. So according to them nothing was bent.

But I still had one issue....... my rag joint was always very close to a header tube and now it was really scraping. After trying to grind it back, I just ended up replacing it with a u-joint. That solved the clearence issue.

But I noticed it looked like my car tilted alittle to the driver side... the side I hit the wheel on. I messed with a little before winter and then got caught up with the Cuda and blew it off.

Well now I finally looked into it some more...... the front driver sits a good 1/2 lower than the pass.... the driver rear sits almost and inch lower....WTF ??

If I place the front up on jackstands, placed just behind the body mount near the firewall...and let the front suspension hang.... all the wheelwells match side to side.

With the front suspension hanging and on the bumpstops, the driver spindle is 1/2 higher

Every other conceivable thing I compare side to side is within 1/4 inch side to side. With the suspension hanging on the bumpstops I can jiggle the driver side spring just alittle... the pass is rock solid. It looks and feels like the springs are in the pockets and the same post side to side....

The door gaps, hood gaps all apprear to be unchanged.....

So WTF.... I'm stumped. The only thing I can think of is an issue with the spring. If something were bent that bad to let the whole side of the car sit lower I would have expected the alignment to be pretty jacked....or the body panels to be off.

I keep coming back to the ragjoint....it was rubbing but I cant find anything on the frame that looks or feels or measures bent

If the alignment tells me that nothing in the suspension was bent.....what else could be casuing the tilt?

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