Front end leveling?

Front end leveling?

Postby 89powerram » Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:33 am

So on my 89 power ram 4x4 the front end sits quite a bit lower then the back end... I was wondering if there was any way to tweak the front end up a little higher so the truck looked more level rather then looking jacked up in the back end?

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Re: Front end leveling?

Postby 4doorciv » Sun Mar 20, 2011 12:55 pm

You mean you don't like the oem rake of the front? Well, it's about a 2 inch difference front and rear. You can raise the front 2 inches or add drop blocks to the rear to lower the rear.
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Re: Front end leveling?

Postby DroppedMitsu » Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:02 pm

Your 4x4 should have torsion bars. You adjust them from under the cab and you can probably get it close to level.
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Re: Front end leveling?

Postby LethalEthan » Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:05 pm

DroppedMitsu wrote:Your 4x4 should have torsion bars. You adjust them from under the cab and you can probably get it close to level.


+1. I'm almost positive you can get it level that way. You may need to get shocks though
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Re: Front end leveling?

Postby pennyman1 » Sun Mar 20, 2011 6:10 pm

Or you could swap out the upper control arms with ones from a first gen montero
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Re: Front end leveling?

Postby 89powerram » Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:26 pm

Ok Iv never done anything with torsion bars before... Ive installed a lift kit on a leaf sprung 80 Chevy 4x4 but these torsion bars are new to me...

Is this fairly simple to do....?
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Re: Front end leveling?

Postby 4doorciv » Thu Mar 24, 2011 12:41 am

With torsion bars, all you have to do is use a tape measure to a specified point, and crank on the adjustment point to the desired ride height. You can go a little deeper and re index the torsion bar, but that involves removing the torsion bar and reinstalling the torsion bar in a reindexed manner. Aka turn one flat or more in the desired direction to keep oem quality ride comfort at a different ride height. That relieves some stress on the torsion bar. Learned this from Mazda b series guys.
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