I just switched out my front springs on my regal a month ago. And my drivers side in the front is a half a inch lower to the ground then the passengers side. It dosent sound like much diffrence but you can tell by looking at the wheel wheels and by looking at the car from the front view, i just want it level. The tires are the same size and the shocks seem fine. Has any body had this problem?
My regal is lower on the right side then the left.
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My cutlass was like that. Passenger side was lower by and inch or so. Could see it standing behind it. I broke a ball joint and replaced it, put it back together and it straigtened itself out.
Most of it is just wore out springs or flat body bushings. It seemed like pulling the lower A arm and spring out and fixing it helped mine.
Most of it is just wore out springs or flat body bushings. It seemed like pulling the lower A arm and spring out and fixing it helped mine.
you need to measure the height of the frame on a flat surface with the front wheels pointed forward and that will tell you if it's the suspension or the body...the other thing is with the new springs are the sitting in their pocket and was there new isolating pads installed correctly?
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Check what pontiacgp said ... I put all new spindles, control arms, springs, ball joints, etc etc on my s10 blazer and when I let it down I almost crapped myself because the drivers side was 1.5" lower than the passenger. Lifted it back up and found the spring was spun around and not sitting in the upper pocket correctly on the passenger side (the one that was higher). Put it back in place right and all was better ... also did you get your spings off of EBAY? My friend bought a set of lowering springs for his Mustang and wasn't level afterinstalling them and it wound up being the cheap *ss chinese springs .. put a set of Eibachs and replaced and all was better.
Yep, as those above said, double-check your spring pockets and make sure the spring is sitting in the right place. I have had that happen on 2 different G-body's.
another thing to check is make sure tire pressures are even and take a look at the rear since if the left rear up that`ll drop the right front. It`s a good thing to remove one end of the shocks so you know they are not binding the suspension and that you don`t have a seized ball joint that can change the stance....but first like I mentioned measure the height of the frame each corner to see if it is the suspension and that can help you figure out which corner of the suspension is off....or if it`s the body...
I measured from the frame to the floor in the front left i got 13 1/4 on the front right i got 12 3/4 and in the back i got 10 3/4 on both sides.I did not get any new isolating pads with the new springs i got from gbodyparts. And the springs seam in the pockets i pushed in the spring then compressed it then bolted the spindle back to the upper ball joint then decompressed it.
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