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HELP, car is leaning

Old Feb 2, 2007 | 10:01 PM
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HELP, car is leaning

well the problem is kinda wierd. i have new struts and mounts. bushing and control arm. the problem that i am having is that the car, seems to be wobbling a bit over bumps. well i changed the strut again to see if the new ones were defective. no difference but i did notice that the car was sagging about .5in on the passenger front than the driver side. the rears are perfectly even. do you guys think my spring went bad. i have stock spring. i never heard of springs going bad but i guess they can too.it only has 90k on them. so i measure it to be .25in shorter after new struts. i think of dropping but want to figure out what else it could be. i will get it on the alignment rack again tomorrow to help with the wobble. i mean i changed everything for suspension and steering. only thing i can think of is that i have one new oem LCA on the driver side and cheap ebay on passenger side. i also hit a curb before that is why i have an oem LCA on the driver side.
Old Feb 2, 2007 | 10:50 PM
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sounds like your springs, I would get some new ones and try them out
Old Feb 3, 2007 | 06:45 AM
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OE springs don't sag, ever hear anybody on here complain that their Max is suddenly starting to sit lower?
The fact that you hit a curb sends up a red flag. Who put the sturts and mounts in? Are the upper spring perches clocked correctly? They are indeed slightly angled, if they aren't clocked correctly 1/4 inch differance could very well be caused by that. Was the ground perfectly level when you measured it? I mean, 1/4 inch isn't much......
Old Feb 3, 2007 | 07:45 PM
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i know hitting the curb is pretty much a flag. i personally changed the struts and mounts. i do know that the spriongs have a specific way of being mounted, noted "out" on the metal seat. Well the car was measured a few different times on the ground. i know the ground might have been unlevel.one of my doubts. so i measured it on the alignment rack. My final measurement today after getting it back off the rack total .5in shorter. The difference is very noticable. the wheel gap is quite a bit smaller. i want to drop it anyways but don't want this to get worse if it could be something else. I believe the car settled after being driven around a bit just like new lowering springs. my 3000gt sit real low after awhile when i put my h&r on. but i never heard a spring can go bad, broken yes, but not bad. i'm just puzzled. also the car had this problem even before the curb hitting. just never really actually went into details with it.
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