why, after new D60 and 14 bolt, hand made perches, new springs, new body bushings, hand made spring hangers, DOES MY GOT DAMN SCOUT 800 STILL LEAN RIGHT LIKE IT ALWAYS HAS FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS!!!!!!!!

rust!

All of them do....... Jeeps do too. It is a law like gravity.

Check your body mounts on the right side.

I try not to get involved in Politics.....:D

Tweaked frame?

Originally posted by BETA
why, after new D60 and 14 bolt, hand made perches, new springs, new body bushings, hand made spring hangers, DOES MY GOT DAMN SCOUT 800 STILL LEAN RIGHT LIKE IT ALWAYS HAS FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS!!!!!!!!

If it has been leaning like that for 15 years, why do you expect it to want to change after all this time? Change is not always good. How do you feel when your wife tells you to stop putting your feet on the coffee table the day after you get married? You have been putting your feet up for 20 plus years, why do you have to change now? Why force your rig to do something it obviously does not want to do? Maybe it likes leaning to the right....

Try putting helium in the passenger side gas tank

yeah, good point. why upset the natural order of things, but is it possible that in China it would lean left, kinda like the water goes the other way around the toilet over there.

Originally posted by BETA
..... hand made spring hangers....

AH ~ there ya go! :D













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But really, Scouts, particularly V8s have the engine offset to one side, this allows them to fit the T-case up inside the frame rails...but offsets the wieght.

Another (and more probable) reason is that the D60 housing spring perch is physically taller than the one on the tube, this accounted for 1"+ of lean in Project2. We fixed it by welding in a larger spring perch on the driver side....

Plenty of Scouts came w/ 1/2" spacers on the spring packs. This levels things out.

Leave them out and live w/ the comments and/or funny looks.
Weld spacers to spring perchs and forget it.

Originally posted by TATER
Plenty of Scouts came w/ 1/2" spacers on the spring packs. This levels things out.

Leave them out and live w/ the comments and/or funny looks.
Weld spacers to spring perchs and forget it.
The 1/2" spacer you refer to is on the passanger side and only applies if your SUA. But even if you continue to run SUA lift it and remove the spacer. Mine are out and the rig sits level (until the springs relax):D

Originally posted by Binder79
The 1/2" spacer you refer to is on the passanger side and only applies if your SUA.

*EEEEAAAA* ~ WRONG!

We continue using the spacers on every SOA we do. the cast portion of the housing lifts the passenger side up just a bit, so we use the stock spacers on the driver side to level it out.

On D60s we actually build up a perch (or re use the old stock one) to keep it the same hieght left to right.

:D

Originally posted by Snoopy


*EEEEAAAA* ~ WRONG!

We continue using the spacers on every SOA we do. the cast portion of the housing lifts the passenger side up just a bit, so we use the stock spacers on the driver side to level it out.

On D60s we actually build up a perch (or re use the old stock one) to keep it the same hieght left to right.

:D

Ahhhh! I can see how that would happen. Kinda hard to mount a spring directly to the axle tube!:D

If it leans to the right...

I have to ask.. is that with YOU in the driver's seat?

Get inside and see if it levels out.

Maybe it's just used to having a driver in it, and it's "settled" to accomodate...

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well, lets see, the battery, pedals, steering collumn, brake MC and lard-assed driver are all on the drivers side... the other side has...... um NOTHING.



and people wonder why scouts lean.... :rolleyes:
























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If none of the previous ideas solve your problem and it looks level from the rear and not the front? Your lean is coming from the singular body mount located back from the center of the front clip. There are large gussets on the frame corners and the radiator support corners. Just shim. To be done right your rusted out inner fenders need to be repaired. I think once they start to go the front end gets tweaked. I'm gutting the inner fenders and radiator support, then hanging the body w/ tube. Less rust, more room.