'96 XLT Sagging Front Suspension

[aggie_me_1998]

I have looked in the backlog for this post but wasn't successful finding it. I have a 96 XLT AWD 5.0L V8. About a year ago I discovered that the front suspension had a significant sag causing the front wheels to "tow in". This has caused significant wear on the inside part of my tires. I did a small amount of research at the time and heard that there was some type of design defect in the front suspension that caused this. Being an idiot, I brought it into Firestone and had them "fix it". They said they added some shims that would help fix the sag. I took them at their word. Well, here I am a year later and had a blow out at 60MPH on the highway. While changing the tire (Michelin LTX with less than 7000 miles) I noticed a severe wear pattern on the inner portion of both tires. I thought that I had heard a while back that Ford had made a retrofit kit for this problem. Anyone heard of it and what the fix is?
Thanks,

 

[Jason_25]

Hmm you may need to have someone look and see if there's a TSB on it....

My thoughts are that if all else fails just crank the torsion bars up.

 

[Tito_146]

You may find any info on TSB on the NHTSA website. If you want to know if there was any release that is. Now I would follow Jason's advice and just adjust the Torsion Bars on your x and may be an alignment.

 

[edman]

You might be thinking about the recall Ford has on the sway bars (Campaign # 00V402000), you might want to have them check it out if you already haven't. I just had them work on mine and boy did I make over (I guess). Ford not only did the sway bars they changed the rack and pinion steering, tie rod ends, chambers, two new front Wranglers RT/S's and aligned it (for free). The best nothing I have ever spent. When they told me what was wrong I thought I was going to go broke, but it was free. Honestly the truck ran like hell, now I am a very happy camper, it runs like a dream. Maybe you will have the same luck.

Good Luck.

 

[edman]

Forgot they also did both cv boots and half shafts. Don't ask me why they did all this on a recall but I will never argue with them incase they might want to bleed me later.