Leaning to one side..

[Trooper]

Any of you noticed or measure of your truck is leaning to one side? A friend told me his was leaning evening 3/4 inch to driver side front and back over passenger side. I just measured mine and it is 1/2 lower driver side, front and back. I measure top of wheel arch to top of wheel or ground.
Nothing noticeable in drving and not even in looking until I measure it, just curious if any one has measured this and same results. Quick google search appears to find many examples so is this normal for a reason?

 

[Bozo]

Only when the ex rides in the truck!LMAO!

 

[BAT3500]

with full or empty fuel tank? That could be at least 250 lbs extra on the drivers side

 

[Squatch]

Check your cam bolts on your radius arms, if they aren’t pretty similar in their placement you can get a lean. They are your caster adjustment and mine was way off from the factory. Once I adjusted them to be aimed at the same position the truck straightened up. The Thuren specs can shine some light on this, check the Thuren website for their technical documents.

 

[Trooper]

Check your cam bolts on your radius arms, if they aren’t pretty similar in their placement you can get a lean. They are your caster adjustment and mine was way off from the factory. Once I adjusted them to be aimed at the same position the truck straightened up. The Thuren specs can shine some light on this, check the Thuren website for their technical documents.

just checked on mine and pretty close to being same, so now I am curious, if for example I adjusted driver side clockwise what does that move? also the height difference was rear also and no adjustment there, so interested if others have this also..

 

[Squatch]

If they are pretty close I wouldn’t mess with them too much, if you get the caster too far out of whack it can mess with your steering and the front driveline angle. I adjusted mine cause it was way off and the steering wheel wasn’t recentering on its own when I came out of turns.

 

[Bozo]

with full or empty fuel tank? That could be at least 250 lbs extra on the drivers side

Yeah, my ex is fat......really fat(I was released before that happened) and NO, she will never ride in my truck.

 

[Great White North Eh]

Maybe let some air out the hi side and pump the low side back up to factory 80 to 90 .

 

[Trooper]

@Squatch
thanks for input, I don't plan t adjust anything, it drives fine. I was more curious on impact of adjustment. driver side clockwise does what?
That said, since new this truck always pulls right slightly, no matter after 4 alignments. so there could be something to adjust on camber

 

[Squatch]

I’m sure someone will tell me if I am wrong, but as you rotate the cam arrow from pointing towards the rear through the down and then towards the front (clockwise) position, when looking at the left radius arm as you are centered underneath the truck, that would decrease caster and I think that would effectively lift that side of the truck. Again, the Thuren article is great for telling you about this. Click —-> https://www.thurenfabrication.com/tech/alignment-and-handling.html

 

[H3LZSN1P3R]

I’m sure someone will tell me if I am wrong, but as you rotate the cam arrow from pointing towards the rear through the down and then towards the front (clockwise) position, when looking at the left radius arm as you are centered underneath the truck, that would decrease caster and I think that would effectively lift that side of the truck. Again, the Thuren article is great for telling you about this. Click —-> https://www.thurenfabrication.com/tech/alignment-and-handling.html

But without proper knowledge of adjustments one can also cause death wobble to occur with to much caster angle so i would encourage anyone to read up on the link he shared before making adjustments...

OP as it has been said already fuel level will change the drivers side hight slightly thats why on lots of vehicles there is a left and right spring depending on fuel tank location