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May 31, 2001 | 12:13 PM

dbkc413

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One side lower!

On my '95 Ranger XLT (2wd) my rear driver side is lower then the rest of the truck. The only thing i can think of is the fuel tank is there. Is that what it is? Does anyone else have this problem? How can I straighten her out? Thanks in advance!

Jun 1, 2001 | 12:37 PM

BLUECOLLAR

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One side lower!

(throw all this out the door if its been in a bad wreck before)measure all 4 corners to make sure one side isn't messing up the others. If indeed that rear is the worst, its probably gonna need a leaf spring.

Jun 1, 2001 | 02:15 PM

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One side lower!

I had a similar problem with my 2001 where the left rear was higher. After measuring we also found the right front was lower but you really couldn't see it. A torsion bar adjustment leveled the whole thing out. I don't know if this will work for your problem or not.

Terry

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Jun 1, 2001 | 11:23 PM

Ultramagdan

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One side lower!

I had a similiar problem on my old 88 ranger 4x4. Except it leaned to the passenger side. I changed the front coil springs with heavy duty ones and when that didn't work I then switched sides on them. No effect! I installed a extra leaf spring in the rear on both sides. No effect. Prior to all of this the truck had been rear ended by a Lincoln Mark VII that hit off to the passenger side. All the measurements said the truck was true after it was "fixed" I even tried putting rubber spacers in the front coil spring. It just chewed them up and spit them out. The truck drove fine except that it leaned a little to the passenger side. Drove me nuts, since I always talked the truck up and people knew that it bugged me since it leaned a little. Maybe I should've checked frame height at the rear of the leaf springs. The accident may have tweaked them. But I assumed that was fixed when the frame was straightned.

98 F250LD 4X4

Oct 14, 2001 | 09:36 PM

jrpranger

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One side lower!

Same truck, same problem. Found that one side has 1 fewer leaves in the spring set. I was advised that I should replace the springs on both sides at once either new or from salvage.