Installed Mopar lift two weeks ago, sides don't match height, what did I do?

[iosigma]

So I installed the mopar lift with fox shocks on my 23 Gladiator Rubicon. After the lift, aligned the steering wheel. Drove it and everything seemed fine. Didn't measure right after the install because I thought the lift would settle a bit. So after about 200 miles I measured to the fender on both sides and the passenger side measured about an inch and a quarter lower than the driver side. I double checked the front springs and everything seems clocked correctly. Put it on an alignment rack and everything is within spec to what mopar suggested. Any ideas as to what it could be? I've put these lifts on before but never had a problem. Thanks for any input in advance.

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[Jay Gatsby]

Yep, unfortunately it’s common with the Mopar lift. Some say it’s because the gas tank is on the passenger side, I don’t know. Mine did it too with the Mopar lift. Got better in time.

 

[iosigma]

Just doesn’t seem like a $2300 lift should be that way

 

[JTGuy]

The springs are specific in location.

 

[Jay Gatsby]

Agreed. Wow, price has gone way up. Mine was $1400 in March 2021! Hopefully yours will settle some and not be so obvious.

 

[Jay Gatsby]

The springs are specific in location.

Yep, double and triple checked mine when installing. Some people have that front spring bowing too.

 

[iosigma]

I double checked the springs, they are in the correct location and clocked correctly. They both now in the correct direction as well

 

[iosigma]

I double checked the springs, they are in the correct location and clocked correctly. They both now in the correct direction as well

*** bow

 

[Banned]

I would suggest the springs are marked wrong. If it were me, I'd switch the springs, and if that didn't help, make mopar swap them out.

 

[RobbertCole]

Just doesn’t seem like a $2300 lift should be that way

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it may cost that much but it isnt a $2300 lift.

 

[JTGuy]

Mine was almost perfect. Contact the seller of the kit. Perhaps have a good 4x4 shop look at it. Did you do the track bars? It steers and handles ok. The springs look good? Bolts tightened when on the ground? Did you adjust the Johnson rods? LOL

 

[OHJeeper]

Mine was almost perfect. Contact the seller of the kit. Perhaps have a good 4x4 shop look at it. Did you do the track bars? It steers and handles ok. The springs look good? Bolts tightened when on the ground? Did you adjust the Johnson rods? LOL

I've had no issues with mine, either - 2 years.

The spring perches on the wrong side are the only reason I can think of why you'd get bow in the front.

Oh and also.... please don't take offense at this suggestion, but when you read "left" and "right" on the instruction sheet, that's when you're sitting in the vehicle facing forward. So, for most of us, driver's side is Left and passenger is Right.

 

[Tommyd]

Agreed. Wow, price has gone way up. Mine was $1400 in March 2021! Hopefully yours will settle some and not be so obvious.

Yeah I remember when they where 1300$ lol double the price almost and nothing new

 

[SoK66]

We run this kit on our five tour Gladiators and they sit perfectly level. I know they changed the shocks to Bilsteins but I wonder if they have a different vendor for the springs now as well? Springs are location specific and should result in a level stance. The pricing has reached the stage where it's no longer a good value, too bad.

 

[Wolf Island Diver]

On their lift AEV says the gasser requires a spacer that the diesel doesn’t:
“EcoDiesel does not need the shim due to more equal side-to-side weight balance”

Not knowing the Mopar lift (although I have the best part of that kit rolling around on casters in my workshop), I’m going to assume it doesn’t come with one of those spacers. I’m also going to assume Mopar doesn’t actually make the passenger side springs heavier, longer etc. The stock truck probably has the same issue but a lift makes it more pronounced. Also when does anyone actually measure this stuff and detect this difference outside of installing a lift?

I’m in workshop clean up mode today. I’ll look to see if I have that AEV spring spacer. Maybe I can mail it to the OP. Although I’m curious why others don’t detect the difference. Is it just not measuring and detecting the slight difference or are their inconsistencies between examples of the kit?

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