Ive noticed the past few days my car sits lower on the drivers side rear. I measured up to the fender lip from the ground.
drivers side is 27.5 inches
passenger side is 28.25 inches
I havent changed anything?
broken spring?
Enjoy the fox body lean.
Normal on older foxes,you still may have a broken spring but it will never be level lol.
I had a broken spring on the pass side front of my car. Still seemed to sit higher on that side though.
I vote broke spring. You wont know til you try and fix it.
I had a broken spring on the pass side front of my car. Still seemed to sit higher on that side though.
I vote broke spring. You wont know til you try and fix it.
maybe you need to lay of the cheeseburgers.:D
MMMM! Cheeseburger sounds really good right now....
I'd suspect a broken spring on the front left corner. A broken spring there will bring the left rear down and raise the right rear slightly. These cars are well known for breaking front springs...
join the club :D:punchballs:
What about rears breaking? My pass side front was broke but my car was lower on driver rear.
That is true.
So the front spring broken cause the rear to raise? I never would have guessed that.
Can you still get springs from Ford, what do you guys use?
That looks about like mine, but reversed. LOL
I've got all new springs and shocks all the way around on mine...and it still leans to the driver's side slightly. I don't know what causes this, although it is pretty common on a fox.
Random guess but since we all know how ridged our cars are not my guess is frame tweak. The wear of the driver weight to one side, 20+ years of wear. Causing a sag to one side.
It wasnt leaning like this till just a few days ago, now it is pr0nounced.
I found some MOOG standard susp. part number 8658 ?
Ill prob just wait till I put 11" brakes on the front along with new struts, then swap the springs at that time.
Think of it like this: If the left front spring breaks, the right front and left rear tires will act as a fulcrum. The car will lower in the left front, the weight will pivot about the right front and left rear tires, and the right rear will come up slightly.
It's easier to demonstrate the other way around. Jacking up the left front will cause the right rear to drop. The right front and left rear wheels still act as a fulcrum, but this time while the left front is coming up the right rear will go down. Easy enough to check out with a jack (FWIW, this is also why you're supposed to block the wheel opposite the corner you're jacking - the way the weight transfers will put the most pressure in that corner).
As for the possibility of it being a rear spring: This is possible, but I've yet to see a rear spring break in one of these cars. Sag, yes, but not break. That's not saying it doesn't happen, just that I've never seen it. I've seen plenty of broken front ones, though (my 88 V8 and 87 TC springs both broke).
The tendency to lean left might also be caused by weight distribution in the car. Simply put, the driver's side weighs more than the passenger side. On the driver's side you've got the battery, power seat (most of these cars only have one power seat), steering column/shift linkage, spare tire & jack, and of course, the driver. The drivetrain is offset slightly toward the passenger side, but probably not enough to offset the 300 pounds or so of extra ballast the driver's side normally carries.
If you really want to cure the lean, a set of adjustable LCA's will do the trick nicely. That's what I did :hick:
My 5.0 TC is just about a 1/4" lower front and back on the drivers side vs right... Now this is a car with 100% stock suspension(original TC springs) and has taken a beating at the dragstrip... Has something like 700-750 passes...
The red TC is all pen 15eyed, LF is 3/4" lower than RF and RR is hiked up like a dog taking a piss... Possibly it has a broken LF spring, but appeared to be intact when I checked it some time back...
They always do look intact until you take 'em out. The bottom coil breaks off inside that rubber isolator thingy.
Actually, I shouldn't say they always look intact - my TC spring broke at the top after swapping it into the V8 car (and this was without even driving the car - I swapped the springs in, then noticed one day that it was broken). That's what prompted me to install the Bullitt springs.
throw some airbags in both sides and pump em up til they even out.