Tom,
Take a look at your leaf springs first. If you lost (broke) a single leaf
for whatever reason, that would make it sag. Also regarding the leaf
springs. It is possible the sagging side lost some of its arc due to being
overstressed. If this is the case, the springs can be re-arced. The shocks
will not make a difference in stance. Beyoud that, if nothing is apparently
out of alignment, you might want to get the frame checked. That's all I can
think of.
Rich - Ashburn, VA
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom (Silver89) [mailto:SilverEightynine@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 12:58 PM
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
Subject: DML: Truck bed is sagging on one side
Afteroon everyone... Not sure if anyone can advise me on this one. The
4x4 Silver 89 seems o have some back end problems. looking at the truck
from teh rear - you can see that the right corner of the bed seems to be
sagging. Or the left corner is too high -depends on how you look at
it. Now this is the truck that I went to the east coast to buy. I have
no idea of its history. It was used as a plow truck and thats about all
I know. The bed and wheel wells were spray painted with a flat
battleship grey sort of spray paint. I'm wondering if that was done to
keep it from turning to rust - or if it was a bed repair. Because I
cant see any signs of damage to the bed itself. My question is - could
this sagging be caused by bad leaf springs and bad shocks? (the shocks I
know are bad) because I cant really figure out whats causing it.
Could that also be a sign of frame damage??
I am trying to get my personal web site up and running - but I need to
find a better server to put it on! I ran out of room!
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1989,V6,Auto,8 footer,4x2 1989,V6,Auto,8 footer,4x4 w/snowplow
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