Dan's73
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After trying everything known to the EB world with the front end to take care of the lean my '73 had, I finally figured out & cured the problem.
Long story short, I always had a little lean since I put the 3.5" lift on, but it really started bothering me the last couple of years. I pulled the entire front end all the way out, rebuilt everything, and took great pains to insure that the radius arms were dead-parallel when I rebuilt. Still had the lean. Shortly after I had the right rear wheel bearing go bad. Didn't think much of it at the time, but the more I thought about it, the more things started to (possibly) make sense. I had been rear-ended by an "undocumented visiting worker" a while back. I didn't think it did anything to the Bronco, but when his pimped out Accord submarined under the rear end he might have actually smacked the rear tire. I had looked everything over at the time & again later when I did a brake job but the only thing out-of-ordinary was a missing pad between 2 of the leaves on the PS spring pack. Anyway, I decided to pull the leaf springs & see what was going on. Sure enough, PS spring pack was tweaked. Couldn't really see it on the truck but it's pretty obvious. Take a look at the pic & you'll see...
Put new springs under there & she's sitting nice & straight now! Anyone have need for (1) good & (1) slightly tweaked 3.5" leaf packs?
Long story short, I always had a little lean since I put the 3.5" lift on, but it really started bothering me the last couple of years. I pulled the entire front end all the way out, rebuilt everything, and took great pains to insure that the radius arms were dead-parallel when I rebuilt. Still had the lean. Shortly after I had the right rear wheel bearing go bad. Didn't think much of it at the time, but the more I thought about it, the more things started to (possibly) make sense. I had been rear-ended by an "undocumented visiting worker" a while back. I didn't think it did anything to the Bronco, but when his pimped out Accord submarined under the rear end he might have actually smacked the rear tire. I had looked everything over at the time & again later when I did a brake job but the only thing out-of-ordinary was a missing pad between 2 of the leaves on the PS spring pack. Anyway, I decided to pull the leaf springs & see what was going on. Sure enough, PS spring pack was tweaked. Couldn't really see it on the truck but it's pretty obvious. Take a look at the pic & you'll see...
Put new springs under there & she's sitting nice & straight now! Anyone have need for (1) good & (1) slightly tweaked 3.5" leaf packs?
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