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burls

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Joined: Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:30 pm Posts: 989 Location: Ipswich
Vehicle: 95 sj70 and 78 lj81
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 Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 7:13 am |
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Just want confirmation I guess, went out 4wheelin yesterday in the mud and all and notice this morning when washing it that it is about 1 to 1.5 inches lower on the drivers side. I couldnt find anything broken. So I guess the springs are had it.
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Choppy

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Joined: Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:30 pm Posts: 1074 Location: sunshinecoast
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sierra? this is common with older springs, theres a couple of the thread around on how to level it out.
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PJ.zook

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Joined: Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:30 pm Posts: 845 Location: Melbourne
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Yeh this is common, almost all leaf sierras do it, most of us just put up with it. As Choppy says, there are many threads on this subject, just search for something like 'sierra lean'
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burls

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Joined: Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:30 pm Posts: 989 Location: Ipswich
Vehicle: 95 sj70 and 78 lj81
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 Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 8:56 am |
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yeah thanks, as I thought out with the wallet again,
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Scrawny

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Joined: Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:30 pm Posts: 10528 Location: Brissie
Vehicle: Popemobile
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ajsr

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Joined: Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:30 pm Posts: 3712 Location: melb
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burls wrote: yeah thanks, as I thought out with the wallet again,
no just man up and swap them side to side and they will even out eventually.
a little later they will sag to the rhs again 
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BlueSuzy

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Joined: Sun May 04, 2008 11:30 pm Posts: 9716 Location: NSW
Vehicle: SJ51 LWB, SJ70 SWB
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 Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 9:49 am |
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Bent springs?
Hit shackles?
Otherwise. Its the most common thing with a sierra. Search "lean"

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barneyszookin
Joined: Wed Apr 21, 2010 11:30 pm Posts: 178 Location: geelong
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hmmm mne just started doing this, this weekend to...
mine are all only a couple weeks old tho! :/
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Scrawny

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Joined: Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:30 pm Posts: 10528 Location: Brissie
Vehicle: Popemobile
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barneyszookin
Joined: Wed Apr 21, 2010 11:30 pm Posts: 178 Location: geelong
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haha im not fat be any means!!!
still got the lean goin tho... haha
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Jccck
Joined: Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:30 pm Posts: 706
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barneyszookin wrote: hmmm mne just started doing this, this weekend to... mine are all only a couple weeks old tho! :/
My new springs have been in for over a month, and taken heaps of abuse... No lean for me yet, exactly the same
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burls

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Joined: Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:30 pm Posts: 989 Location: Ipswich
Vehicle: 95 sj70 and 78 lj81
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Looks like the front right is the culprit
Jccck what sort of springs did you get, these were OME.
Oh yeah, fat bastard wasnt driving "son of" was and scrawn unless you can bend them back the gym aint gonna do anything
Last edited by burls on Mon Jun 21, 2010 3:13 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Jccck
Joined: Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:30 pm Posts: 706
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burls wrote: Looks like the front right is the culprit
Jccck what sort of springs did you get, these were OME.
Oh yeah, fat bastard wasnt driving "son of" was and scawn unless you can bend them back the gym aint gonna do anything
Well i bought 'em off ebay  so idk
My fronts have freed up and flex well now, the rears need a little more abuse, but they'll get there haha
I also heard something about front left and front right having different springrates, not sure if this is true.. But it was said that the "lean" can be caused by putting the springs on the wrong sides?
Is this correct? I think i read it in one of Buzooka's threads
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burls

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Joined: Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:30 pm Posts: 989 Location: Ipswich
Vehicle: 95 sj70 and 78 lj81
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I just checked with ARB and I can get new 40mm lift for a hundred bucks each, these will take a week or more to get. Or EFS springs for 210 bucks Anyone with comments on this spring or better ones or price.
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zooker

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Joined: Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:30 pm Posts: 596 Location: Queanbeyan
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Go the OME (ARB) springs. Great price and good quality. Just take a leaf out of the passenger side to help out with the inevitable lean.
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burls

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Joined: Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:30 pm Posts: 989 Location: Ipswich
Vehicle: 95 sj70 and 78 lj81
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 Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 11:03 am |
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Ok found the stabiliser bar had lost a bolt and one bent spring. Need the car so swapped springs with an old set still no good, swapped the ol set side to side and still no good, put a rear set on with extended shackles still the same.
Any help would be great it has about 40 mil different
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burls

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Joined: Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:30 pm Posts: 989 Location: Ipswich
Vehicle: 95 sj70 and 78 lj81
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 Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:41 pm |
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Well I put new 2" kings on RH is much higher in free state than left and it still had about 20 mil lean so I swapped the backs over and now its about 5mil high RH side which is perfect I recon. So for my 5 cents anyone who has a lean it can be fixed with the right combination of springs
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