OME tilting to the passenger side!!!!!

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I finshed the lift a week a go or so and the 60 is still leaning to the right, if your looking at it from the rear. I purchased the Heavy Duty OME kit and today I put it back on the lift to readjust the U bolts. First I triple checked to make sure that I put the proper leaf spring on the correct side of the cruiser and I did. The spring with the "A" on it goes on the driver side.

Next I made sure that all the U bolts were tightened down with the same amont of threading protruding through the tops of the bolts. They are all right at 1" and tightened down well.

This time around it's not leaning as much.
Any sugestions?

:o
 
Um, doesn't the A side go on the AUSSIE drivers side (US passenger side?) ?

Might be a pretty common mistake- On the 80 series it's very common to put the wrong spring on the wrong side, by following the directions.
 
US cruisers usually lean to the drivers side. OME puts the higher arched spring on that side to compensate. It should settle in after a while and be level. Some aggressive leaf flexing might speed it up a bit.
 
With OME you need to make sure you have the springs on the correct side. I would swap yours side to side and see if that does not correct the lean. I had to do this when I installed mine 2 years ago. After the swap it was very level and remains level now.
 
Swap the springs... rather than going by the markings... we usually set the two springs (per axle) side by side and use the tallest one for the drivers. Has worked fairly well...
 
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Dont do a damn thing to it for at least 500 miles. Try to flex it a bit and maybe throw a few bags of sand in the back. Most times it will settle down and be more or less level. If after 500 miles or so it still leans swap springs.
 
dd113 said:
Dont do a damn thing to it for at least 500 miles. Try to flex it a bit and maybe throw a few bags of sand in the back. Most times it will settle down and be more or less level. If after 500 miles or so it still leans swap springs.
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That's what I've been thinking also. I did the HFS lift fro cool cruisers and it's also leaning to the passenger side. I figured I would let it settle for a while hopefully it will eventually level out.
 
Thanks you all for the input, it's all great advice. I will let it ride a bit, tgakeit off road and see what happens. after that if it does not settle I'll try swapping springs. Thanks again to all who gave thier 2 cents.
 
My OME was all over the place. I was really discouraged.

ARB/OME same as "dd113" ... don't do anything for bunch of miles. My front was way low and the back real high. Well whadda' ya' know. After a bunch of mils and some wheeling the front lifted and the back sank. Perfect now.

Weird.

Oil changes really helped too because the truck was on a lift and the springs had a chance to un-compress.

Cheers,
Cahil
 
I just installed an OME Med/Hvy setup from Kurt at Cruiser Outfitters.... Pretty much doing the same thing as all of yours - leanin' to the pass side. No worries... I think I'll just wait the miles and see what happens. I'm still starry-eyed at how the cruiser rides now and how good it looks when it doesn't drag its own ass over every driveway!

By the way go with Kurt at Cruiser Outfitters for everything! He really jumped through the flaming hoops for me on this deal - good dude, he'll take care of you.

Nick
 
ThatNickGuy said:
By the way go with Kurt at Cruiser Outfitters for everything! He really jumped through the flaming hoops for me on this deal - good dude, he'll take care of you.

Nick
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Thanks Nick... glad to hear everything worked out nicely! :D

I would give it a bit of time to "settle", more times than not they will level out.
 
We are having the same issue with our cruiser. But now I am starting to get nervous...we have driven it over 1K miles, and did some rather awesome off-roading in it (man can she crawl over stuff now!) and still the same lean.

Will the left / right possition of the front springs make a difference? I was told that it is just the back springs that will cause the lean issue. Any thoughts on this one?

I am going to take it to work and lift it from the frame to let it uncompress the springs, and double check every little thing, maybe that will help.
 
Take that bitch out to combat town and run the reaper a few times.

Did the reaper in a LAV once.... scared to death!

And just before the Pulgas gate, when leaving base, there is a "road" that heads north on the coast side of that first mountain range. Take it untill you get next to the "vista point" or something overpass on 5 (1/2 mile south of the border station) Anyways, once there you can find the secret QC LAV playground off to the left towards the 5. a really sweet knife edge jump, some rather challenging ruts, bunch of orther stuff.

Oh yeah, don't get caught!
 
My BDS is leaning to the driver's side....and it seems to be the driver's rear.

Any ever try dif. size shackles to level?
 
Dirty Toad said:
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Will the left / right possition of the front springs make a difference? I was told that it is just the back springs that will cause the lean issue. Any thoughts on this one?

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I installed my aussie made Dobinsons on my 73 series 2-3 years ago and they rode level from day one.
A 73 has 75 series springs on the front and 60 series on the rear.

I checked the spring the same way Kurt suggested and the front springs were indeed the thickness of a spring leaf higher (10mm) on the RH (drivers side for me).
It was some time back but I think the rear springs were close to being the same height although they were all stamped L and R.

I had an old Jeep manual once for leaf sprung jeeps and it also said to determine the spring height by turning them upside down and putting the highest on the drivers side:D
 
Well It's been over a year and just to recap I have Heavy OME front and rear. And the back is noticably higher than the front with a minor lean to the passenger side. All stock.
 
3puttcop said:
My BDS is leaning to the driver's side....and it seems to be the driver's rear.
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.....maybe you should consider getting a lighter rear :D
 
boerboel313 said:
Well It's been over a year and just to recap I have Heavy OME front and rear. And the back is noticably higher than the front with a minor lean to the passenger side. All stock.
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Could be as simple as an add-a-leaf and front trim spacer to solve both problems.... Give me a ring if you want the specifics :D
 
boerboel313 said:
Well It's been over a year and just to recap I have Heavy OME front and rear. And the back is noticably higher than the front with a minor lean to the passenger side. All stock.
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Ditto ...

After spending *way* to much time on the phone talking to OME I decided having a higher rear was a *feature*.

My lean is ~ 3/8" to ~ 1/2" down on the drivers side. Works for me.

End result ? I'd buy OME or Dakar again in a heart beat. However, the way it leans when installed is most probably the way it will lean down the road.

Flexing will help but it will help all 4 spring packs not just one.

OME & Dakar ??? springs are *scragged*. I don't have a good definition of *scragged* but my neighbor across the street who worked in a spring foundry for a bunch of his life sez scragging loads the spring beyond anticipated load in service thus *setting* the spring.

Greek to me. But I read that as what you start with will be what you end with.

Hope this helps.

Bascially if the lean is acceptable you have a truck lifted *like-they-do-in-OZ".

Cheers,
Cahil
 
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