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Car leans to the passanger side, help?

Old Feb 25, 2010 | 12:16 AM
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Car leans to the passanger side, help?

Car is in my sig. I noticed after I bought my car that the passanger right leaned a little bit. It also made a knocking noice from that area over hard bumps. I replaced the passanger front strut, an no diffrence, still leans an knocks. I recently just noticed that its not just the front, it's the hole right side. Any ideas? The suspention is all stock. Any help would be greatly appriciated.
Old Feb 25, 2010 | 02:12 AM
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Check the condition of the sway-bar end links (front and rear), if there in good shape and not bent, or broken then make sure there both (Left & Right) tightened down the same amount. If there not then replace them with new end links, and also check (front and rear) the condition of the sway-bar mounts; make sure there not bent, loose, or broken.
In the rear check to make sure the bottom ends of both springs are both pointed towards the front of the car, if there not you'll then want to go ahead put the left spring in the forward position,and on the right side go ahead and remove the spring since there's a possibility the upper spring isolator might be worn out. And if that still isn't it you could have a bent rear spring.
Old Feb 25, 2010 | 11:56 AM
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Thanks man for the info, I'll check it all out when I can. Is there any other ideas? Thanks for everything
Old Feb 25, 2010 | 11:38 PM
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There's also the possibility of a bent sway-bar.
Old Feb 26, 2010 | 10:22 PM
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I forgot to tell that my suspention is all stock except the rear sway bay, it's red I haven't got a chance to read the name on it yet, but I plan to check allthe bushings an endlinks to see there shape. This might be a dumb question but can I complety remove the front an rear sway bars, to see if that's the problem an see if it stops sagging. I kno it's not safe to drive without an I'm not planning on it, I'm just trying to narrow it down to the problem.
Old Feb 27, 2010 | 12:55 AM
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Yeah, just completely disconnect all the sway bar end links, you don't need to take the bars off. Do the rears, then the fronts.
Old Mar 2, 2010 | 03:07 PM
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Ok so I finally got time today to Check everything out. I only had the time to look at the back. The bushings that hold the rear sway bar to the rear end looks fine. But bothe end links looks bent, an I think they were way to tightend down. My buddy was helpin me an he said they shouldn't be that tight, so they can move around just a bit. Is that true? An but of the rear springs were pointing in diffrent directions, so I fixed those. I have some moog endlinks comin in later today an I'll try to get those on an see if that helps at all. Thanks for everything
Old Mar 2, 2010 | 03:26 PM
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Or....could just eat a LOT of cheeseburgers and chili fries, and just use your added weight to even the car out?
Old Mar 3, 2010 | 12:12 PM
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Lol I'm 250 pounds I think I got that covered, I just hate lookin at parked an it's leanin to that side
Old Mar 3, 2010 | 01:33 PM
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^ Maybe thats why the previous owner had the car leaning at park =p
Old Mar 3, 2010 | 04:41 PM
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The vehicles are known to lean about an 1/2 inch off... Maybe, because of flex???? There was a thread about this many moons ago...
Old Mar 3, 2010 | 07:15 PM
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yea i was reading that post about body flex, i hope its not that, but if it is, it seems they just put some spacers in
Old Mar 6, 2010 | 04:41 PM
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