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I don't know if I should be worried about this, but I have enclosed some pictures of what my front end looks like. If you see the driver's side wheel, the top looks more "in" than the passenger side. When the weight of the car is down on the ground, then the tires look OK, but when driving the car, going over dips in the road, it does tend to "wallow" quite a bit. Now, I don't know if that's due to the air shocks being up so full, because of the obscenely huge tires that were on the rear, or not. But, now I have the same size tires on all the way around, so I'm sure I can let some air out of the shocks. But, I've been doing a brake job, and just got done replacing the side marker light cable, so I haven't taken the car down off the jack stands yet! Plus, with it having no heater, and it's colder than a witches t*tty here, I'm not planning on driving it anytime soon!
I've checked the front end out, when I had the tires off, and everything looks OK. In fact, it looks like the passenger side upper ball joint was replaced, and whoever did it, conveniently left off the grease zerk.
With all the receipts that came with the car, one was from an alignment shop, where one of the previous owners got 'raped' for over 2 grand worth of parts/labor. Most all of the front end parts were replaced, including: lower control arm assy, upper shaft kit, idler arm, sway bar links, and bushings, shackle kit, rebuilt power valve, new shocks, and even grease seals, with wheel bearing repacking (which looked pretty thin, when I just repacked them).
Anyway, should I be worried about the way this looks? Pardon the crappy pictures, but I took them in the lowest setting, so I could download them on the website.
One more thing, when I put the tires on, I wanted to make sure the thicker rubber wasn't going to hit anything in a full turn. So, I turned the wheels lock, to lock, and they are fine. But, that is with the car up in the air. I'm sure this is going to be a stupid question, but I don't have anything to worry about, once the car is on the ground, right?
Thanks,
John
I've checked the front end out, when I had the tires off, and everything looks OK. In fact, it looks like the passenger side upper ball joint was replaced, and whoever did it, conveniently left off the grease zerk.
With all the receipts that came with the car, one was from an alignment shop, where one of the previous owners got 'raped' for over 2 grand worth of parts/labor. Most all of the front end parts were replaced, including: lower control arm assy, upper shaft kit, idler arm, sway bar links, and bushings, shackle kit, rebuilt power valve, new shocks, and even grease seals, with wheel bearing repacking (which looked pretty thin, when I just repacked them).
Anyway, should I be worried about the way this looks? Pardon the crappy pictures, but I took them in the lowest setting, so I could download them on the website.
One more thing, when I put the tires on, I wanted to make sure the thicker rubber wasn't going to hit anything in a full turn. So, I turned the wheels lock, to lock, and they are fine. But, that is with the car up in the air. I'm sure this is going to be a stupid question, but I don't have anything to worry about, once the car is on the ground, right?
Thanks,
John






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