My car as well as several others have had a problem with the right rear sitting higher than the left. I've finally solved the problem so I thought I'd share. And trust me, it's no big secret. In my case it turned out to be a preload in the right upper control arm. I completely removed the upper control arms and reinstalled them with the axle sitting on jack stands. Now the car sits perfectly level! If you try this don't stop with just the upper arms, do the lowers as well. The reason I know it was the uppers is because just the week before I replaced my lower control arm bushings and the car still sat un-level. This is particularly important to do for anyone who is replacing their springs. Most aftermarket springs are "lowering" springs and as such installing them will cause your stock positioned control arms to have a "preload" set in them. The control arms act as four independent little springs of a sort. If after installing the lowering springs you loosen up all your control arm joints and re-torque them, you just might have a better running stance than if you left them adjusted to the position of the stock springs.

--Bob

 

Good work. I will definitely have to try this out.

 

wow..you learn something new everyday!!!

 

man, great tip... thanks for the info!

 

Hey I just put rear springs in my car, and I might look into this. I had the rear bold of all the control arms off, but I never thought to loosen the fronts. How do you retorque the front ones with the car back on the ground? I'm thinking about digging a 2-3 wide hole and driving overtop of it....

 

NanaimoRx-7 - lol, we'll I guess you could dig a hole. I just put the rear axle on jack-stands and pulled the wheels off.

 

Some things that I forgot to mention:

While you're under the car, loosen up all the watts link connections as well. Also.... make sure ALL the bolts are loose before tightening them back down. Retorqueing each one individually will do you no good.

And PLEASE be sure to retighten ALL the bolts before taking the car for a spin. Check and double each one.

As a BIG added bonus..... I notice that my car has less "snap oversteer" now! Maybe your's will handle better too.

--Bob

 

Ha ha ha, I didn't mean for the entire job. I meant for when you torque the bolts up to spec after putting the car back down and rolling it back and forth on the ground to settle the components. Screw it, I guess it's time to buy a lift.