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ajctraveler



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It just doesn't make sense..

I got my car stock and it was perfectly level left/right. I had it modified with a bunch of things including medium load OME springs all around. The load in the back made the rear springs sag a bit so I decided to upgrade the rear springs to HD, again OME. Since putting on the HD rear springs the car sits noticeably lower on the left side side (no gas tank, lighter load), about 10mm. Originally I thought the springs might be handed, but they're not.

Is it possible that they were just seated improperly by the guy that did the install? Did OME just do a poor job of quality control? Any other ideas?

I am considering having them swapped left to right to see what happens and having a spring spacer on hand incase I have to go that route, but I'd rather sort this out logically before I'm on the clock to get it fixed at a shop..

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What a lot of people forget is the front arches are higher on the body work than the back so if the truck is completely spot on level the front gap between wheel and arch will always big bigger than the rear

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LandRoverAnorak



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ajctraveler wrote:
Since putting on the HD rear springs the car sits noticeably lower on the left side side (no gas tank, lighter load), about 10mm.

I'd suggest that if it's only 10mm then you have nothing to worry about. That's well within the tolerance of any reasonable suspension set-up and you'd be hard pushed to even notice without a tape measure. Darren

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Post #217575 9th Mar 2013 11:00pm
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ajctraveler



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LandRoverAnorak wrote:
ajctraveler wrote:
Since putting on the HD rear springs the car sits noticeably lower on the left side side (no gas tank, lighter load), about 10mm.

I'd suggest that if it's only 10mm then you have nothing to worry about. That's well within the tolerance of any reasonable suspension set-up and you'd be hard pushed to even notice without a tape measure.


It's pretty noticeable without one, although to be fair, I have a pretty keen eye for these kinds of things. My Travel Page
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