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Track Bar Adjustments

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Good day everyone, I am looking to see if anyone else has the same issues as me. Starting from the beginning, I have a 2020 Ram 2500 Limited with the rear air suspension. I first noticed that the truck was leaning to the PASSENGER side when it had about 500km on the odometer. It was drastic, just over 1" front and rear lean towards the passenger side, worse in the front. Having had this issue before when the Dodge dealership did a steering gear replacement on my 2017 3500, I noticed that they messed up the alignment as the Casterbolts were almost 180° from eachother. On this new truck they weren't 180° but they were not mirrored. After them failing to correct the alignment, and me fixing the alignment with another shop to the Thuren specs of <0.05° total toe and 3.9° driver, 4.3° passenger caster the truck is now driving straight with the thrust angle of -0.01°, however the lean still remains but it is about half as bad as it was when Dodge left me with 0.15° total toe, 5.3° and 5.0° caster with a thrust of -0.23°. Now I have noticed that my wheels sit way further inside the passenger fenders than the driver side, I would have to measure but I'm guessing with my eyeballs that it is close to an inch if not more. Obviously this is going to cause weight balance and spring bowing issues particularly in the front end, where most of this chassis lean is noticed. Has anyone had these issues corrected? Is there any adjustment in the factory track bars? The truck is 100% dead stock mechanically but it has a very bad lean and I'm certain this is due to the track bar lengths, the axles are off center so much that its like the truck is lifted 6" and it's all pulled to one side. *I put this in the wrong forum initially on 5thgenrams*
 
Yeah, track bar is one set length. Caster if set by shop is likely accurate if you have a print out. My cam bolts were way out of alignment and you could really feel it in the steering characteristics of the truck, so I did follow the Thuren recommendations for getting those cam bolts to mirror each other and it fixed everything. I will tell you that getting out a tape measure on these trucks is kinda like going to google for health information...just don’t do it and you’ll be a lot happier.
 
Just to muddy the waters even further, I think the markings for the cam bolts are just for reference, meaning if you set them both to the same mark, they aren’t necessarily set to the same degree due to small differences in tolerances for components welded to the axle at the factory.
 
Squatch said:
Just to muddy the waters even further, I think the markings for the cam bolts are just for reference, meaning if you set them both to the same mark, they aren’t necessarily set to the same degree due to small differences in tolerances for components welded to the axle at the factory.
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There is cross caster welded into the front axle to help keep the truck driving straight on our crowned roads. So with even settings the caster on the passenger side will always be slightly higher to compensate. I’m sure if I got under and measured the radius arm to ball joints would be close to identical now, before there was close to 7/8” difference.
So I guess I’m getting a set of adjustable track bars.
 
I’ve got the rough country on mine, I really like it. I had carli on my last truck. They are both built better than oem , but it’s nice being able to adjust the rough country without having to remove it from the truck.
 
get rough country. super bang for buck. easy peasy adjustments.
 
Any problem with the track bar should not cause the truck to lean either direction, but if theoretically it somehow did, physics would dictate that a front track bar problem would most likely influence things in such a fashion as to pull the driver's side down, not the passenger side due to their mounting locations.

You most likely have a cross caster problem from an incorrect alignment.
 
The track bar doesn’t cause that problem. If it was too short or too long, it would just shift the axle to the left or right.

You can verify that the track bar is not the problem by unbolting one end of it. you’ll see that it’s not under major tension and the truck doesn’t “spring back” to level. (Don’t drive like this)

you probably have manual cross caster from a bad alignment or you just have a bad spring or air bag. Look up “thuren alignment specs” that is how these trucks should be aligned.
 
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