Drivers side 1" lower than passenger side

[phasemaster1]

I've been through whole suspension checking spring pockets and everything seems to measure good. New bushings , balljoints , eibach coils ,shocks and rear upper and lower trailing arms. Car still sits 1" lower on driver side rear. When I put jack on frame in front of drivers door raise car about 1"-1/4" car rear levels out. Long story short never check before removing body from frame found a better looking frame. Thought I measured frame points from factory specs, maybe missed something. Never had issue when installing new bushings. Thanks


Questions
1. Could the frame be twisted just enough to cause this?
2. Can I continue with building car and have it tweaked later?

[dhutton]

What kind of subframe and core support bushings did you use? If rubber or poly are they compressed equally to the same thickness?

Don

[phasemaster1]

Rubber ones pretty much same compression can't see loosing an 1" though.

[dhutton]

There is some geometry involved. It is not one inch on the bushing. It is a small amount on the bushing carried all the way out to the passenger front control arm mount etc....

This is the first place I would check. Compressed thickness should all be pretty much equal.

[rustomatic]

I've got about 1/4 to .5 on the right front of my Falcon. It's 51 years old, and it's been hit many times in all those years. It took me a few years to really notice, and only because I was looking a bit too hard. I'd look to a bend--these things can be fixed...

[phasemaster1]

There is some geometry involved. It is not one inch on the bushing. It is a small amount on the bushing carried all the way out to the passenger front control arm mount etc....

This is the first place I would check. Compressed thickness should all be pretty much equal.


Bushings look pretty uniform. Only ones that have gaps had to use shims are trunk ones because I installed floor when car off frame.


I've got about 1/4 to .5 on the right front of my Falcon. It's 51 years old, and it's been hit many times in all those years. It took me a few years to really notice, and only because I was looking a bit too hard. I'd look to a bend--these things can be fixed...
I can live with 1/2" but 1" is too much.

I have never used coil overs can they be used to cheat. Thought I read they are height adjustable. Of course one day I would take car to frame machine to get checked then adjust back if some twerking involved.

[dhutton]

Just realized this is not a Camaro. Sorry, I just assumed it was when you did not state it as something different....

Don

[phasemaster1]

Just realized this is not a Camaro. Sorry, I just assumed it was when you did not state it as something different....


Don

I guess this might help 1967 GTO lq4 Muncie stock 15" wheels

[pitts64]

My view is all those years of carrying the driver, steering box, battery and dash controls weigh that side down and make it sag...

Try removing the shock, jack the wheel off the ground, put a pair of Vise Grips on the spring, hammer the vise grips and twist the spring so it rides up the lower control arm spring ramp to the top. Drill a hole at the spring end put a nut and bolt through there to lock the spring.. It worked for me..