leaning/alignment

[93GTosu]

some of you might remember my times with the new P heads. and how my alignment was off. the car pulls left pretty tough.

well i took the car to NTB to get the alignment straightened out, but the guy said he couldnt do it for a few reasons:

-the car is leaning to the drivers side. it looks like a 400lb dude is sitting in there.
-front bearings are "a little" loose and could be "repacked" or replaced. but they arent "too bad"
-my rotors have little "heat cracks" or somethin in them. he showed me and i could see them but he said they werent "that big of a deal"


basically he said to get the car sitting level and he'd align it for me. well i have no clue why the car is sitting off to one side, its done that for a long time.

i remember seeing a thread about other people having this same problem, but cant find it to see if someone figured it out. i know we swapped the rearend, and put some box style upper and lower control arms in at the same time.

in the thread someone mentioned something about the coil springs and if you dont put them in facing the same direction, the car will lean. anyone have experience with that and what i should look for?

also, would the fact that the car is leaning really prevent the guy from properly aligning it?

what else should i look for?!

 

[caine0]

I have this exact same problem! Except my passenger side is lower (like you said, it's like a 400lb person is always sitting in there). One of the threads I looked up had the person saying it was the sway bar, and if you check the spacers at the end of the bar then it might hint at that being the reason why?

I also heard it could be if the springs were facing the wrong way. Does anybody else have experience fixing this problem, and could it be anything besides springs or sway bar? Thanks.

 

[Fox8950]

The springs should be clocked a certain way (not sure if your talking front or rear) big reason in the front is so the drain hole in A-arm isn't covered and in the rear it would effect your ride height a little but not a ton .. not sure how much your leanin.
These guys make some spacers to take the lean many people have in the rear end dunno if this will help any.
http://www.globalwest.net/mustang 79-98.htm

 

[TheRedBlur]

get new springs.

 

[caine0]

get new springs.

My springs are only a year old, and I remember putting them in the correct way. I also have new shocks and struts.

 

[TheRedBlur]

who made your springs? eibach tend to sag.

 

[mike0227]

sag

My fox is about 1/4-1/2" lower on pass side and has been aligned with no problems.

I have eibach pro kit and new KYB's. My car pulls to right however the roads here are slanted for water run off and car will pull to left if drive on wrong side of road.

Get a second opinion!!