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JK Lean - what did you do?

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Old Dec 9, 2013 | 09:10 PM
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Default JK Lean - what did you do?

I have the infamous JK Lean to the passenger side - so much so that my buddy driving behind me to a trail called to ask if I was hauling fat chicks on the ride...

I am ordering 3/4" spring lifts for the passenger side, but thought (after the fact, of course...) that I would ask to see how others have handled it? My other thought was to pre-load the sway bars, but that will mess with my e-disco on the front, I think...


Thoughts?


-randy
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Old Dec 9, 2013 | 10:59 PM
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I thought u can play with the length of the sway bar links to equal out the lean. Try that.
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Old Dec 9, 2013 | 11:24 PM
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Most of what I've seen it spacers to level it out
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Old Dec 10, 2013 | 05:10 AM
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I have a little JK lean. I first noticed it when I was trying to reconnect my sway bars. one side of the disco slipped on and the other was about an inch and a half off. I pulled the jeep up on a block of wood to even it out and the other side slipped right on. Yes the Jeep was on flat ground while performing this.
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Old Dec 10, 2013 | 07:27 AM
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I have a 1/2" spacer on the front driver side to equal it out. Now it's within an 1/16 th of an inch
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Old Dec 10, 2013 | 09:11 AM
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coilovers will take care of it.
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Old Dec 10, 2013 | 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by TheDirtman
coilovers will take care of it.
Even if the rates are all the same? Its a problem of 200lbs of gas on passenger side so if rates the same wouldn't it still lean? I trust you though with all your knowledge just curious
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Old Dec 10, 2013 | 11:44 AM
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Move the gas tank to the back.
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Old Dec 10, 2013 | 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Tooadvanced
Even if the rates are all the same? Its a problem of 200lbs of gas on passenger side so if rates the same wouldn't it still lean? I trust you though with all your knowledge just curious
My tank can be almost empty or completely full and it changes nothing on my lean. empty or full the passenger side is 3/4" lower in front and the same in back by same I mean the back has no lean. I thought maybe it was designed that way so when you had only the driver but I measured that way too and no difference.
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Old Dec 10, 2013 | 12:56 PM
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The gas tank causing the lean is a very common misconception.

I weighed my JK with half a tank of gas and found the left and right sides to be equal in weight. (Stock, no extras, no driver)
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