thanks guys.
I moved mine back when I did my f150 spring swap about 1/2" to help center it. Don't think it'd be much help, have you checked ttora?
how did you move them back? did you cut and reweld the hangers?
I just registered with TTORA last night, so I wasn't able to post. Will poke around there a little. good suggestion, thanks.
check your shackle angles also.
how best to check that? just a plumb and a ruler?
what do I look for in the shackle angles?
what does it mean if they're different?
I spoke with both ARB and Wheelers today to try to get some ideas of other things to check. I'm sure it's something simple.
Some more information about the situation:
After doing a little pre-installation reading last week, and having installed a kit on an earlier Toyota, I decided to go ahead and remove one of the leaf springs in each pack prior to installation to reduce the rake and make for a more forgiving ride. I knew this would reduce some of the load carrying capacity, but was willing to make that compromise.
ARB says that there is the possibility that I may have cracked one of the center pins when reassembling the spring pack. They said not likely, but possible, and the torque could be shifting the axle a bit. So that's one thing to check.
Wheelers said it could also simply be a matter of not having had the suspension in proper position before I tightened everything, which is also possible.
My question to that is, what is the proper position? I forgot to ask. So is it hanging from the shock absorbers? Then tightening the fixed end, shackles and u-bolts? Or is it with the wheels back on and truck back on the ground, having bounced the rear a few times?
This had me scratching my head all day yesterday after I first noticed the problem in the morning. I haven't had any time to work on it since Saturday.
Anyway, thanks for the input so far, fellas. I'm planning to pull the wheels and drop the axle again to check a few things and pull some measurements from the fixed end to the center pins just to make sure they're both the same. Then, I'm probably going to put that second leaf back in, because it seems to have a bit of uneven flex with 300lbs worth of bags of paving sand in the bed that I'm using for break-in. It's not much; we're talking about a 1/4" difference between sides when I measure the distance from the bottom of the lowest leaf to the top of the overload spring, so not sure how big a deal that is, but it's different. This is most likely due to the battery and fuel tank on the left side, which is why ARB recommends the 5mm trim spacer on the left strut assembly, and also a slightly stiffer leaf spring on the driver side. Falls in line with the Toyota springs, too. With them off the truck now, I can see that the driver one is taller than the passenger one. When I first saw this and had them side by side, the center pins weren't lined up and I thought, "
! they're different lengths from the hanger to the center pin!" But then it turned out that that was just an illusion, and once I flexed the driver side to match the height of the passenger side, the center pins lined up
