I recently be`came the owner of my first MoPar and I'm really stoked about it and the potential the car has. However, I've been having some serious trouble with my front suspension. When i first got the car the inner lip of the fender was chewing the tires on turns so I immediately replaced the shocks which did nothing. I later found that the load on the torsion bars had been taken down to an ungodly low level to get the car to a low ride height...I raised the ride and I haven't had a problem with it since. Currently the car pulls to the right incredibly fast if I let go of the wheel for the slightest second. This is where the real fun description begins. My front tires are leaning in at the top, something I figured would be fixed if I got an alignment but no one will do my alignment. When I make a right hand turn, the passenger front tire leans even more than when it normally does. Also on right hand turns the passenger side of the vehicle raises up and slowly settles as I drive straight. Is there a major problem linked to this? I've replaced the uper balljoints on both sides and that helped none... I'm afraid that I might be in need of an entire front end rebuild...Is that the case? if you guys can help me at all it would be much appreciated.... Thanks..

sounds like an alignment would be a good place to start. some times the adjusters on these cars are a bear to free up which might be why no one wants to do it. did it want to pull before you cranked the bars up? if not, an alignment should fix everything. when you move the torsion bar adjustment, it WILL change the alignment specs on the car. hope that helps some

--chad

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Well before I adjusted the torsion bars it was pulling left and right...And its own discretion, but after I adjusted the bars it simply pulls left. The other thing is that when I hit bumps, if I hit a few on the passenger side, then the driver side, the car doesn't pull either way, as if the bumps have sort of jarred something back into place... Thanks for the thought Chad. I'm hoping the alignment is the fix for all this crap....

My 74 duster did the same stuff when I got it. After no one would touch it for alignment, without a total rebuild first, I did the best I could myself. Ended up the mounting hole through the K member, for the lower control arm, was wallered out. After taking the suspension off and welding a large washer on the K member for reinforcement, the car has been fine ever since, going on 5 yrs now. Again, did the alignment myself by trial and error. Does not eat up tires, but Ionly drive about 100 mi. per week.

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i also had a bad k frame hole at same spot. cost me 100$ for k-frame same price at all three junk yard in my area. before i found it i had three aliments from two places i think it was firestone that had a mopar guy and thats the only one out of 10 or mor people that looked at it that know's why my tier was leaning after a alignment