Suspension isn't level, sagging front corner.
Posted: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 1:24 +0000
Hey,
Hope you guys/girls can help, I've just taken delivery of a new Hilux dual cab, 2.8 auto, the moment I sat in it I noticed that the front left hand side felt lower than the right hand side, by a fair margin.
I put the Hilux on level ground and measured the arches to the floor, and there was easily 15mm lower on front left and about the same on the rear right, the car also pulls the left.
I checked tyres pressures and they where all good, and I also loaded the drivers seat up with some weight to see if it was built in sag to allow for level driving when the driver was in the cab.. got upto 155kg before I gave up on that as it hardly budged at all.
I've checked the front struts and springs and they look to normal and good.
From the back the truck looks broken as it has so much lean on it.
I don't know if this is a common issue with pickup trucks, but it seems way too much to feel like its meant to be normal.
I did do some little googling and noticed its not the first time this has come up, so is there a solution to the problem?
Going to take the front anti-roll bar off the front tomorrow and put it on the corner weight scales and see if its just got more weight on that front corner, or its tripoding itself across the other two corners (Front right and rear left)
Silly question, are the leaf springs on the back handed? (Reason I say that as mentioned above about the cross tripoding, if there is a heavier sprung spring on the left rear due to the fuel tank being on that side, it would be pushing up harder and as the engine is the heavier end, it will actually pivot between rear left and front right and cause the front left to be lower).
hope that makes sense.
Any help would be appreciated.
Hope you guys/girls can help, I've just taken delivery of a new Hilux dual cab, 2.8 auto, the moment I sat in it I noticed that the front left hand side felt lower than the right hand side, by a fair margin.
I put the Hilux on level ground and measured the arches to the floor, and there was easily 15mm lower on front left and about the same on the rear right, the car also pulls the left.
I checked tyres pressures and they where all good, and I also loaded the drivers seat up with some weight to see if it was built in sag to allow for level driving when the driver was in the cab.. got upto 155kg before I gave up on that as it hardly budged at all.
I've checked the front struts and springs and they look to normal and good.
From the back the truck looks broken as it has so much lean on it.
I don't know if this is a common issue with pickup trucks, but it seems way too much to feel like its meant to be normal.
I did do some little googling and noticed its not the first time this has come up, so is there a solution to the problem?
Going to take the front anti-roll bar off the front tomorrow and put it on the corner weight scales and see if its just got more weight on that front corner, or its tripoding itself across the other two corners (Front right and rear left)
Silly question, are the leaf springs on the back handed? (Reason I say that as mentioned above about the cross tripoding, if there is a heavier sprung spring on the left rear due to the fuel tank being on that side, it would be pushing up harder and as the engine is the heavier end, it will actually pivot between rear left and front right and cause the front left to be lower).
hope that makes sense.
Any help would be appreciated.