Chevy Lean Issue. Need Guidance

[projectmidnight74]

Going back and re-reading your original post, I would suggest starting with a coil spacer or riser to raise that corner up. The Chevy Lean can be fixed front or rear, but each situation is different. Since you're saying you're too low up front, you need to raise that corner. If it was more toward the back, you could add a block or shackles and set your shackles at different heights.

Can you post some pictures of your truck? Also, before you do anything, measure all 4 corners. Since the wheel wells are not the same height on these trucks, I usually measure to the bottom of my trim behind the front wheel and in front of the back wheel. Parking on level ground and measuring there gets me the most accurate re

Going back and re-reading your original post, I would suggest starting with a coil spacer or riser to raise that corner up. The Chevy Lean can be fixed front or rear, but each situation is different. Since you're saying you're too low up front, you need to raise that corner. If it was more toward the back, you could add a block or shackles and set your shackles at different heights.

Can you post some pictures of your truck? Also, before you do anything, measure all 4 corners. Since the wheel wells are not the same height on these trucks, I usually measure to the bottom of my trim behind the front wheel and in front of the back wheel. Parking on level ground and measuring there gets me the most accurate results.

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Will try to do that when I get a chance.currently we are on the cancer clearing stage on the floor boards. #rust.

 

[projectmidnight74]

These are the best 2 pictures I could find to illustrate what I mean, you can see how the driver's fender is about even with the top of the tire/right at the tread. The passenger fender is down the sidewall a good bit. My truck is ~3/8" lower on the passenger side front without me in the truck and you can tell it in person. Much harder to see in pictures. In the rear, I'm within 1/8" of each other. So to fix my truck, I need to either trim the driver's side spring a touch more to bring it down even with the passenger side, or I need to add those coil risers to the passenger side to bring it up higher to be the same as the driver's side.

Since you're rubbing, you'll need to either raise your lower corner or install SloshTubz and trim the high corner to bring it down level. I rubbed real bad on my original inner fenders but wanted the down in the weeds look, so I installed SloshTubz to get the clearance I needed.

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Some pics. Hope this helps..

 

[squaredeal91]

Probably not the issue. But I once worked on a dodge. Leaned and bounced on drivers side. Said he had all the shocks replaced. Drivers side shock was upside-down. Flipped it over and all was good after.

 

[bucket]

Am I the only one that hates the term "Chevy lean"? It ain't just a Chevy problem. It's extremely common for most older cars and trucks to sit a little unlevel. Most people just don't notice it because they don't have any reason to check it with a tape measure.

Oh and while I'm bitchin and moaning, I absolutely can't stand it when people say it's common for truck to sit a little lower on the driver's side by design- so the driver doesn't have to step as high to get in. Are you frickin kidding me? Don't be dumb!

*My opinions are just mine and not necessarily the opinion of GMSquarebody.com as a whole*

Sorry, lol

 

[Keith Seymore]

Learned something new from the engineering team today!

"These trucks leaned when new. K"

Great info K.

Hope this admission of faulty, substandard balanced spring to weight ratio's during manufacturing does not blow back on you or your team... The J-Turn Jeep Team got beat to death over this type of admission...

I was trying to help you out, brother...

"I abhor litigation... and the creeps who perform it." -Welder

See my Sig, for my opinion on this type of "bad", (or "poor" for the emotionally sensitive engineers out there...) engineering...

So... every Barrett Jackson Auction, for a fully restored truck, which does NOT lean... has been a scam sale and the insurance value after the sale is the F-word?

The GM roll-over liability claims specialist "probably" just had heart failure.

'Preciate the insights on 55 year old design and manufacturing technologies. I'm pretty sure they are out of the warranty period by now.

We sold 15 million so I guess it wasn't so bad.

K

 

[Keith Seymore]

Learned something new from the engineering team today!

"These trucks leaned when new. K"

Great info K.

Hope this admission of faulty, substandard balanced spring to weight ratio's during manufacturing does not blow back on you or your team... The J-Turn Jeep Team got beat to death over this type of admission...

I was trying to help you out, brother...

"I abhor litigation... and the creeps who perform it." -Welder

See my Sig, for my opinion on this type of "bad", (or "poor" for the emotionally sensitive engineers out there...) engineering...

So... every Barrett Jackson Auction, for a fully restored truck, which does NOT lean... has been a scam sale and the insurance value after the sale is the F-word?

The GM roll-over liability claims specialist "probably" just had heart failure.

In defense of my managers, they did give us every conceivable resource we could ask for to combat this problem - until the next shiny hardy perennial problem came along (eg vent window wind noise, or driveline imbalance, or tire imbalance, or door closing effort) at which point they would pull us off to begin work on whatever was next.

There were plenty of problems to choose from and to work on.

K

 

[TotalyHucked]

Some pics. Hope this helps..

So that's exactly the same as my truck, just yours is even lower on the pass side. So you definitely either need different front springs, a coil spacer or those coil spring risers I mentioned to raise the pass side up. Or trim some off the driver's side coil to bring that side down further, whichever one. But if you don't want to deal with rubbing, the pass side will need to come up.

 

[bucket]

And it's worth noting, be conservative with a coil spacer. A 1/4" spacer will net ~1/2" at the wheel.

 

[projectmidnight74]

So that's exactly the same as my truck, just yours is even lower on the pass side. So you definitely either need different front springs, a coil spacer or those coil spring risers I mentioned to raise the pass side up. Or trim some off the driver's side coil to bring that side down further, whichever one. But if you don't want to deal with rubbing, the pass side will need to come up.

Yeah and that's what I'm going for. Drivwrs side was cool and no rub. Passenger side was hitting the tub. A definite no go. We're gonna reseat them and if that doesn't work try the spacers on the passenger side. Thanks fellas for everything

 

[projectmidnight74]

And it's worth noting, be conservative with a coil spacer. A 1/4" spacer will net ~1/2" at the wheel.

Will do. Any product links will also help if anyone has any. I don't wanna grab the wrong thing. Keep in mind. This is a 2 inch drop spring and 3.5 inch drop spindle. It's in the woodsssss

 

[Craig Nedrow]

Have you checked your cab mounts and bushings? Saying this as the pic of the side shows the cab low.