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Title: 79 c10 leans to passengers side.
Post by: mercado1211 on May 06, 2019, 09:26:22 pm

Anybody else ever encounter this? I have a 79 c10 swb truck that’s been lowered, springs in the front, flip kit in the rear. The problem is I started noticing a lean to the passengers side. It was a previous duel tank truck and I canceled out the drivers tank, I also removed it. Could the missing tank cause it to lean to the other side? Its about a 3/4 inch lean measured from the bottom of the lower a arm to floor. Would a coil spacer help? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Alex


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Title: Re: 79 c10 leans to passengers side.
Post by: zieg85 on May 06, 2019, 09:29:49 pm

You may want to make sure the springs are in the pockets correctly.

Title: Re: 79 c10 leans to passengers side.
Post by: mercado1211 on May 06, 2019, 10:50:36 pm

I’ll check it out this weekend. I think I’m gonna try flip flopping the rear leafs and see what it does. Its sits about a 1/2 inch lower in the rear passenger side as well. I just got finished replacing all the cab mounts to try and correct another problem then I noticed this problem. This never ends.


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Title: Re: 79 c10 leans to passengers side.
Post by: bustindailey on July 17, 2019, 11:12:39 am

I have this same issue on my 78 SWB. I'm going to cut a coil off of the spring on the front drivers side and I think that will level everything out.

When I look at the way it leans and look at my measurements it seems like the rear drivers sits higher because the front driver is set up higher... so I might not need anything in the rear changed for it to all be level. It measures like it is just tweaked in that nature so the cut coil should get the whole truck level... I hope.

Title: Re: 79 c10 leans to passengers side.
Post by: mercado1211 on July 17, 2019, 10:50:38 pm

Well let me know how it turns out. I was planning on putting in a              1/4 “coil spacer on the passenger front to see if that would level it. I also thought about taking both front coils off and swapping them, if one was sagging a little it might correct It. I’d appreciate it if you let me know how it turns out.


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Title: Re: 79 c10 leans to passengers side.
Post by: Bondobob on July 25, 2019, 11:30:49 am

I bought a brand new 76 and it was off the same amount.  Not cool.  Do not cut a whole coil! Try a spacer first.

Title: Re: 79 c10 leans to passengers side.
Post by: mercado1211 on July 26, 2019, 11:48:23 pm

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Title: Re: 79 c10 leans to passengers side.
Post by: mercado1211 on July 26, 2019, 11:54:53 pm

I put this on this bottom of the coil, it’s a little sleeve I fabricated, It gave me about an 1/8 of an inch on the sagging side. I put an 1/8 inch washer on the core support mount and it’s now pretty much evened out. A little here, a little there and it appears good to go now.


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