Why does my car lean to one side?

[phete]

My 2000 Explorer has leaned to the left since new. That's the PASSANGER side here in Australia! It leans with an empty tank too.

The first dealer I had look at it said it was in spec.
The second dealer agreed it was leaning too much (I showed them with a full tank of fuel). They took the rear leaf springs out and had then 'reset'. Under warranty of course.

Now it doesn't lean as much, and the back sits a lot higher.

There is definately something wrong. It appears all Exprorers lean - I just wish Ford would admit it!

 

[99explorer5.0]

The rear main seal of my explorer blew last week so when i took it to the dealer to get fixed i told them about all the squeeks and rattles and i ended up geting a whole bunch of stuff ordered for it and they have had it for the past 4 days ... hopefully i will pick it up today. Well anyway i also told them about the leaning problem and i was standing under my explorer as they were talking about fixing it. There was about 10 mechanics under my truck and neither one of them had a clue. They were each pointing to differnt parts of it saying they had to tighten this loosen this and they were all disaagreeing with eachother. So i told them to fix everything but forget about the leaning problem. i do not want to be their "lab rat" to experiement screwing around with stuff.

 

[Tars]

WOW I guess my 92 ain't so bad. it has 185,000 on the clock and it has never leaned to the driver side, it leaned to the passenger side but that was a bent I-beam.

I will say that add a leaved to wonders for the truck though. Rides better, tows better, does everything better. I put mine in about 2 years ago and I haven't regretted them yet.

 

[zavaral]

is add-a-leafs like leaf spring supporters

jason

 

[Tars]

No, add a leaves are just what the name says, you add a leaf to your existing spring pack. They put a new leaf in under the main leaf. You have to loosen up the u-bolts and separate the spring pack to put them on.

 

[ld50]

They put a new leaf in under the main leaf

You sure? I put mine between my overloads and the rest of the leaves. That`s what the directions said anyway. They weren`t that long, and it`s a no-no to have a shorter leaf between two longer ones.

Unless they make an add-a-leaf that is longer than the ones below the main you shouldn`t put it there.

 

[taxx]

You are right. The springs in the pack must get shorter each time, because friction is part of the spring. however, an add a leaf can go between any two springs you want just has to be cut to the right length. The closer you go to the longest spring the stiffer/stronger your pack will become, thus resuling in a different amount of "lift". Most boxed add-a-leaf's are short and go next to the overload. But when I did mine I bought it from a spring place and told them what I wanted so they told me wich springs to put it in between, and I just cut it to the length I wanted.