Fx not sitting even

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Mikefx35

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What's up guys. I have a problem with my 04 fx not sitting even on the passenger side. Front and rear. Coils are maxed out all around and have more gap both front and rear of the pass side. Any idea what could be causing this.
 
Happens to me every now and then in the rear. I think the spring moves around since it's only held down by the weight of the car.
 
I don't understand though it's on both sides. Could something be bent underneath that's causing that whole side to not be even as the other side.
 
I got 113k on it. Checked underneath everything looks fine. Even when the car leans towards the pass side both front and rear on an uneven road lets say when parked on by the sewer it don't go lower compared to the other side with all the weight being there.
 
I have a similar issue, but mine sits higher only on the driver rear. Maybe 3/4" difference between passenger rear. I just raised the passenger side a tiny bit to compensate. Driver side is dropped as low as it goes w/ one lockring removed in rear. Passenger rear still has both lockrings. I'm probably going to raise it some though, getting tired of having the rear tires actually rub on the wheel well.

If you're not compressing the passenger side anymore, it sounds like a shock issue. If you don't adjust the shocks to compensate for the drop in the rear, you will bottom out the shock. On the front, it shouldn't matter since you're moving the shaft when you lower it. That's my only guess.

I think it would be very hard for the rear spring to move and not cause other issues. If you don't have enough preload, it could move but even with preload adjusted wrong, it would be very hard for the spring to change the ride height. The way it is clocked in there is pretty sturdy and even if it moved slightly, it wouldn't change ride height. The entire spring mount would have to move where the indentation is and that's like an inch. If the rear spring unloaded enough to do that; I'd be very concerned.
 
There's a few things that come to mind but without seeing it, i'm going to throw everything out there...even if it sounds silly or weird as I have seen some pretty weird scenarios (we're human right?)

- Shocks have gone or weakened
- Coils have weakened
- Camber is off on the right? Maybe the angle is changing the stance
- The rubber gasket the coils sit on has cracked and the coils now sit on the mounts
- One of the shocks has gone and the other one is taking on some of the effort
- Possibility the coils are mixed up (not sure if fronts are interchangeable with rears)?
 
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