I am getting really SERIOUS on this lean

yep an instructional warning style vid i watched in the late 80's in drivers ed.

Jamie, Talk about low probability.

 

Jamie, really, you don't have to make stories up just to "one-up" me

That really is an amazing story...not completely unimaginable, considering how many mustangs of all ages there are on the road, but amazing anyway.

Speaking of which (to jack my own thread, but if someone has the right to jack it, I am the man )

I passed about 5 mustangs today on the way to the auto parts store for the final parts to finish my wife's brake overhaul, 2 '05s and an early one, 64 or 65.

No big deal, but when I pull into the parking lot, some guy jumps out of his truck with a "DUDE!!! You don't see many of those anymore!" for my Mav!

I like that

 

I didn't make it up. Happend at the intersection of Peachtree Industrial Blvd. and Peachtree Rd. in Chamblee, GA when my uncle was on his way home from work one afternoon. We used to have pictures of it but they turned into a pile of dust when my uncle's house burned down.

 

Peachtree & Peachtree? I have been there. What a small world...

With the loss of his car (and a couple of other mustangs) and his house burning down...just don't sound like too lucky a guy

 

Peachtree? I think half the streets around Atlanta are named Peachtree!:evilsmile

 

You're right, there are a lot of Peachtrees in Georgia...

 

I had a friend come over and sit on the high side of the rear of the car, and his 160 lbs only brought it down 3/4".

This makes it hard for me to believe that the off-center gas tank, battery in trunk, and steel reinforced driver door is causing a 1" lean...It has to be frame bend or faulty rear leaf spring (wrong size, or something).

 

Didn't you swap the leaf springs to see if the lean following the spring?

 

Well, considering all the motorcycle racing and stuff he has done, and the fact that he drives over 200 miles a day 5 days a week to work for the past 12 years and has never had a wreck, I would say he is pretty lucky.

 

That is the next thing I do, maybe this weekend, if I find the time. I figure the swap would verify the match of the springs. If it still leans left, then it is a frame issue (or weight, but I just cannot believe that the extra weight on that side, which probably isn't a total of 50 lbs, would cause this lean).

 

Wow ... swapping the leaf springs would have been the first thing I did ... not the last ...

 

It is the most time-consuming...also, I assume that fresh new springs wouldn't need to be swapped. Also, also, there has always been a 1" lean to the left, before and after the spring install, so I doubt that swapping them will do anything, so I put it off until I had all other options taken care of.

I will end up doing it anyway, then will share my frustration in no improvements being made...then ladderbars...

 

The car has had a 1 inch lean from the day you got it? Sorry ... didn't know that ...

 

This is just my 2 cents worth but by mesuring from the fender well openings you may be imparting an error into your formula. You said that the car has had some fender benders so the fenders may very well not be the same height from the ground. You need to mesure from the bottom of the frame rails to the ground in several different places along both sides from the front to the rear. Pick out some places where you can get the same mesurements from side to side. to do this you need to have good tires all around and at the same tire pressure for this to work. This will also give you a good idea if your frame is bent. You can map the mesurements and see just where you have the problam. In the end you need to have a slightly higher right rear mesurement than left, this will help with the way your car launches as the torque transfers to the right rear first.

I hope this helps
Don

 

Scott; if you go to a drive-on lift, like an alignment rack, it will give you a good measurement. Alignment racks have to be flat and level. Good luck!