FNG here, please help me boost my posting score. I Bought my 3rd XJ, but it's the first time I've lifted one. When I had some lift installed and had a weird problem afterward. Took me a couple weeks to figure out; let's see if you can solve it faster.

I bought a 2001 XJ that had all the factory Up Country additions still in place. It was sitting on 28" tires, on the factory 15" wheels. The Cherokee was 1-owner, had 101k miles on it, and still had the factory (Up Country) shocks, coils, and leaf springs on it. All of which were in good shape, and no apparent sagging.

I had a local tire shop install a run-of-the-mill 2" spacer and shackle kit, that brought the total lift height up to around 3". I also had them put on 31" Ironman A/T tires on the 15" rims.

I picked it up and drove it around a couple days to get all the creaks and pops out (this will mostly be a DD). I live in north Florida, and park the XJ ("Lil Blue") in my concrete drive way.

Because of my line of work, I take note of somewhat minor details. On the 3rd or 4th day after the lift/tire installation, I walked out to Lil Blue and could tell that one side of the vehicle was lower than the other. Using a tape measure, I saw that the driver's side of the vehicle, as measured from the ground to the wheel well (trim) above the axle was 1" lower than the front passenger side, and 1.5" lower than the rear passenger side.

I drove the car for the next two days, trying to take some sharp turns, going over some speed humps, and intentionally crawling over some curbs, etc. Both days I measured the same difference in body height after parking the truck in the driveway. Measuring the leaf spring height gave me equal measurements on both sides, but (as best I could measure with a tape) the shocks were more compressed on the driver's side, and I couldn't understand why. I kept laying under the vehicle, looking in the wheel wells, and under the hood for an explanation. I almost created a post to ask everyone "is the driver's side of an XJ Cherokee heavier than the passenger side??"

After about 10 days of pondering this, and considering taking it back to the tire shop and looking like a NOOB, I drove it up and down the street in front of my house and did some hard braking in forward and reverse. I backed it into my driveway and did another measurement, and my problem was reversed (the passenger side was lower than the driver side).

Can you guess what the problem turned out to be?