Diff out of centre to chassis??

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  1. yotalux

    yotalux Newbie

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    The right rear wheel is about 20mm towards the outside of the wheel hull than the left, suggesting that the diff is out of centre to the chassis. My truck is on 3" lowering blocks in the rear and the right rear wheel scrapes the wheel arch on larger bumps because of the extra poke.

    Anyone encountered this before or know what may be putting it out of centre? The blocks are correctly located on the diff and leaves and i cant work out any other reason??

    Thanks.
     
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    Litneon Super Moderator Staff Member

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    It's pretty common. If all the bushings and blocks are tight, then you'd have to cut something loose to take care of it. These frames were built in a jig, but there are still small differenced between them.
     
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    Thanks, i thought i may have been a manufacturing thing, the only thing putting me off was that it only began scraping after i removed the overload leafs which i wouldn't have thought would have lowered it at all without any load. Haven't payed any attention to the wheels being spaced unevenly until now.

    Both have 25mm bolt on spacer + 5mm shim so i will remove the shim on that side and hopefully that'll be enough for it to clear the guard.:)
     
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    Are the blocks sitting correctly on the leafs? My buddy had his axle off center at one point, turned out to be the pin was misaligned
     
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    I'd be measuring to make sure the body is on the frame straight before anything else.
     
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    ive checked all alignment of leaf/block and block/axle and its all correctly positioned.

    I have also measured the body on the frame and that too is straight and centred on the frame.

    Still thinking must be a manufacturing thing, only becoming a problem with the 30mm wheel spacing and lowered.
     

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