Why would my passenger side lean an inch?
- Thread starter ejay
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Not sure, dont quote me lol. I just remember reading that it goes to the passenger rear.
As an experiment try disconnecting your rear track bar, bounce the body and remeasure
I'm probably one of the least qualified to reply, but I noticed that your original post and this one mentioned that the springs are the "same old". So surely it's just time to replace, because they are sagging over time?
As for why the springs would sag more on one side than the other over time, maybe that's what you're really asking. Your theory about the torque seems to be supported by some comments on this thread.
Maybe it's something I'll never have to worry about with my 2.5! ;-)
All we have to do to check for sag is measure the springs on all 4 corners. I already did that on my months old RockJock Springs and they’re virtually the same. I measured at the axle tubes and they were identical. CA’s were torqued on the ground under load. Baffling.
Paul Land
TJ Enthusiast
Park Jeep on wrong side of road or nose facing out driveway if you pull in nose first and re-measure. My jeep always leans but it's because of the road pitching for drainage.
a 1/4" difference in the pavement under 1 corner can make mine look like its not level and i have completely different suspension than y'all do,
most hard surfaces are not flat they are made so water cannot sit and puddle by means of crowns or angles/tilts.
most hard surfaces are not flat they are made so water cannot sit and puddle by means of crowns or angles/tilts.
Swap springs side to side and see what happens.I've noticed that the TJ leans a little on the passenger side for a while. Before I had some recent suspension work done. It wasn't until recently when I had the tire carrier open that I noticed it to the extreme.
I measured it with everything in its place. Tire carrier closed. 3/4 tank full. My wife not in the passenger seat.It dips about an inch on the passenger side. New shocks. New control arms. Newer front end. Same old RE springs.
What could be causing it to lean on the passenger side? I'm making the assumption that I don't have a crappy MC uneven spring situation.
Not passenger side, right side rear corner. Left front always lifts under acceleration and pushes down on the right rear. Follow a lifted TJ down the highway that is running into a head wind, you can see them torque over.
Look up from under the rig at the engine mounts welded on the frame. They are not the same length.
Newton figured it out for us. For every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction. The aerodynamic inefficiency of a lifted TJ contributes to a larger than normal load on the chassis just to move down the highway at speed. The chassis is twisting diagonally from the left front through the right rear corner.
Also why they make output reversers for competition rigs to counteract the drivetrain torque and flatten the chassis out. It is rare that you see a TJ on a climb that is at the limit of what it can do for various reasons that the left front doesn't come up first.
Check your swaybars. Unhook one side of each and bounce the rig. You might also have a slightly bent shock shaft that is sticking in the body and not letting the shock extend properly. If you have adjustable swaybar links and set them dimensionally the same instead of with the body level, that can pull one side.
Torque lean can occur on any rear wheel drive vehicle. Passenger side only? Depends on which side is the driver side and what direction the engine spins.
Here we show off some left hand drive Americana!!!
i find the same guy in front of me quite often on the way home and it's crazy to watch him take off from a light, the rear right dumps and the front driver looks like it's gonna pull right off the pavement. little more engine he'd need a wheelie bar.
Any rear wheel drive car that I ever owned (mustang,camaro, chevelle etc) had some amount of lean to the passenger rear.
My last TJ had a lean to it also, until I removed the rear track bar and triangulated the rear.
My LJ is triangulated in the rear and also doesn't lean.
Could it be that the rear track bar is partially responsible?
My last TJ had a lean to it also, until I removed the rear track bar and triangulated the rear.
My LJ is triangulated in the rear and also doesn't lean.
Could it be that the rear track bar is partially responsible?
Maybe it is the earth's rotation?!
In aussie the lean is to the driver side?
Joking
In aussie the lean is to the driver side?
Joking
So it helped. So it is a spring sagging issue?
I had a thread a little while ago about if I should replace my RE springs as they were pretty old. The consensus there was that spring sag was a myth. Now I'm just confused....
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