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Lift running higher on one side Vs the other?

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Old Mar 18, 2011 | 04:31 PM
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I installed a 4.5" rough country lift as well as clayton long arms and now my jeep is running 3/4" to 1 1/4" lower on the passenger side than the driver's side, at both wheel wells. What could possibly cause this? I already checked the shackles in the back and both are in the same position. Are the springs side specific (both front and rear sets)? Both of my front springs coil the same direction, is that ok? Anyone else have this happen? Im going to check the coil spring heights when I get home and see if theyre compressed the same amount, but even if they werent this would explain the rear since the difference in the rear is a little bit MORE than the front
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Old Mar 18, 2011 | 04:54 PM
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Got a heavy load sitting on the passanger side?
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Old Mar 18, 2011 | 05:04 PM
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lol, nope thats not it. this is with nothing except stock interior in the car
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Old Mar 18, 2011 | 09:16 PM
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It's called the "xj lean" lol. mine does it too, don't have an explanation why
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Old Mar 18, 2011 | 09:29 PM
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I have an explanation for mine. took a couple measurement when I got home, said WTF? and took some pictures






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Old Mar 18, 2011 | 10:00 PM
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That's interesting, in the pic I kinda looks as if the u bolts are resting on the unibody....mine is like 1/4" difference, haven't checked the leafs though...
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Old Mar 18, 2011 | 10:45 PM
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Haha. You're right, but that's definitely not the case. Yeah mine is an inch at that location, definitely something up with the spring
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Old Mar 18, 2011 | 10:52 PM
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Maybe count the number of leaves, maybe they left one out, I think I would probably over look that lol, I'm a big dummy lol
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Old Mar 18, 2011 | 11:06 PM
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did you do full leafs or aal? is your coil set right down in the axle?
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Old Mar 19, 2011 | 01:56 AM
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It's a full 3.5" pack with 1" shackle. I don't know about the shocks, weird that I've gotten multiple comments about the shocks since they are installed in the stock locations...

Oops, read ghat wrong. I think my coils are fine. The front is only off by like 1/4" now which definitely could be attributed to the rear being off by 1"
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Old Mar 19, 2011 | 03:07 AM
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make sure the shocks aren't binding/bad and the same
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Old Mar 19, 2011 | 01:03 PM
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Being well taken care of by lift seller. Should be fine soon
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Old Mar 19, 2011 | 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Hoooper
Being well taken care of by lift seller. Should be fine soon
Good to hear man...
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another quality rc part
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Old Apr 10, 2011 | 12:13 AM
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Originally Posted by freegdr
another quality rc part
Quality CS, the spring sucked. And did you seriously search my old threads and dig it up to suggest rustys is higher quality than RC? High quality trolling there.
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