truck not sitting level side to side

[DMarriott]

Came out to a parking lot after eating and noticed the front of my truck looked lower on the drivers side thought it may be my eyes so when I got home I pulled in the garage and looked
again and it is lower on the drivers side. I looked to see if I had a broken spring or something. Any Ideas

 

[Dodger2014]

I have a 14' CC 2500 4wd. Mine sits lower at driver front as well. Measured it and it was about 3/4" lower than the passenger side. No broken springs or damaged components. Weak spring maybe?

 

[DMarriott]

I'm going to the dealer next week to see what they can find

 

[Slow Six]

Possibly made that way to compensate for road crown?

 

[Grizzly]

My best guess is that you may have a weak spring on the drivers side. It happens, especially to older Ford trucks.

 

[Badunit]

Some have reported that they either have or "need" cross-caster adjustment. You cannot actually adjust cross-caster on a straight axle (unless you buy adjustable ball joints) but the axle moves up/down and back/forth when you turn the adjusters. The two sides are supposed to be set the same so nothing binds, but if you turn one and not the other it can make a slight change in height from one side to the other. I am not so sure I would recommend adjusting the two sides differently, I am simply reporting that I have heard of people doing it to level their trucks side-to-side. Or maybe yours are misadjusted from the factory and you can fix it by adjusting them the same. If you mark the original positions, you can always put it back to how it was.

 

[DMarriott]

I just looked at my truck Badunit and I think you may have hit on it both sides are adjusted differently. I'll take it to my dealer and see what they say.

 

[Dodger2014]

Just looked at mine and adjustment on each side is out as well.

 

[Bob4x4]

You can see the truck raise and lower as the caster adjustemt is moved,I had one straight out of an alignment shop that had about 1 1/2 variation in ride height side to side

 

[DMarriott]

bob4x4
do you know if this correctable or dose the truck have to stay this for proper alignment????

 

[Bob4x4]

bob4x4
do you know if this correctable or dose the truck have to stay this for proper alignment????

guys are mistakenly thinking they can get crazy fixing tire pulls and such by caster adjustments.You should be able to get if fixed and keeping the ride height being very close

 

[DMarriott]

good to know thanks

 

[DMarriott]

went to the dealer yesterday they had the truck most of the day did an inspection of front suspension measures truck side to side and talked to Chrysler rep according to him the truck is within Chryslers
specs. well I talked to them and tried to get some better answers but I didn't. I just wish they had the same quality standards for their trucks as the feds had for their Airplanes. I'm off my soap box now.

 

[sag2]

Not discounting the height difference, but your truck being off 3/4" will not make it drop out of the sky. I'm glad the trucks are not built to the same standard ar planes. They are already expensive enough, building them like a plane would make them out of reach to all but the wealthiest.

 

[DMarriott]

yea saga2 that's true I said that because I retired from Chryslers air transportation, and I was around the planes for 20 yrs and got use to those standards where good enough just wont fly. I guess I'm just too picky but it does bother me so I'll fix it myself after some reasearch

 

[sag2]

I hear ya, it is frustrating when getting something simple right is so much trouble. If you look on your coil springs they should have a PN tag. At the factory only they are supposed to match the springs to the accessories on the vehicle to keep them level. Unfortunately in parts they don't sort them that way, just service one PN. like most everything I like fixing it myself, less stress and I know it's right. Or just leave it alone, because the the big picture it really doesn't matter.