borahshadow
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I think I've got some suspension sag issues... Here's the story of what I did with my truck today before I noticed the issue. Skip down a couple pararaphs if you don't want all the details.
Today I needed to pick up a load of bricks. I loaded the bricks into my truck and I had just enough to cover the entire bed when they were standing on end. Obviously this squatted down the back of the truck a little bit but it didn't seem excessive or anything because it was only like a half pallet of bricks. I drove about 10-15 miles today with the bricks in the back. Nothing too far.
I got home and I needed to take my horse trailer down the street to my neighbors. My horse trailer usually squats down the truck a little bit too. I didn't want to unload the bricks right then because I needed to drop the trailer by soon. I just put the trailer on and so at this point the back was squatted down quite a bit but I don't think I was bottoming out or anything. I drove maybe 1 mile with both of them weighing down the truck. I didn't hit any big bumps hard or anything that I can recall.
Anyway I unloaded the trailer and then the bricks and I looked at the truck (with a now empty bed) and I thought "that back end still looks a little lower than the front" So I took the truck into my shop and I got out a measuring tape. I measured the back end from the top of my centercap to the bottom of the fender (the bottom of the chrome strip) I measured just over 19" I think it was close to 19.15ish. I measured the front and I got almost 20".
So it seems like I have about 1" of cali lean instead of the 2" of rake that I've heard that these trucks have stock. I've never thought (as long as I've owned it) that I've had quite 2" of rake but I've always (eyeball measurements) thought that I had a little rake like about 1" of rake. But not 1" of cali lean. I've never actually put a tape to it before but sure seems to look different.
Does that look like a sagging back end to you?
I wouldn't be too concerned about this right away except that tomorrow I'm supposed to be going on a 1000 mile vacation... with my travel trailer in tow...
I don't have any straight on side pictures of the truck from the past that don't involve at least one wheel up on some sort of curb,snow bank, block etc...
Any ideas? I suppose that the previous owner could have put on a leveling kit but I thought I would have know that or noticed that prior to this...
Today I needed to pick up a load of bricks. I loaded the bricks into my truck and I had just enough to cover the entire bed when they were standing on end. Obviously this squatted down the back of the truck a little bit but it didn't seem excessive or anything because it was only like a half pallet of bricks. I drove about 10-15 miles today with the bricks in the back. Nothing too far.
I got home and I needed to take my horse trailer down the street to my neighbors. My horse trailer usually squats down the truck a little bit too. I didn't want to unload the bricks right then because I needed to drop the trailer by soon. I just put the trailer on and so at this point the back was squatted down quite a bit but I don't think I was bottoming out or anything. I drove maybe 1 mile with both of them weighing down the truck. I didn't hit any big bumps hard or anything that I can recall.
Anyway I unloaded the trailer and then the bricks and I looked at the truck (with a now empty bed) and I thought "that back end still looks a little lower than the front" So I took the truck into my shop and I got out a measuring tape. I measured the back end from the top of my centercap to the bottom of the fender (the bottom of the chrome strip) I measured just over 19" I think it was close to 19.15ish. I measured the front and I got almost 20".
So it seems like I have about 1" of cali lean instead of the 2" of rake that I've heard that these trucks have stock. I've never thought (as long as I've owned it) that I've had quite 2" of rake but I've always (eyeball measurements) thought that I had a little rake like about 1" of rake. But not 1" of cali lean. I've never actually put a tape to it before but sure seems to look different.
Does that look like a sagging back end to you?
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I wouldn't be too concerned about this right away except that tomorrow I'm supposed to be going on a 1000 mile vacation... with my travel trailer in tow...
I don't have any straight on side pictures of the truck from the past that don't involve at least one wheel up on some sort of curb,snow bank, block etc...
Any ideas? I suppose that the previous owner could have put on a leveling kit but I thought I would have know that or noticed that prior to this...