4.8is Ride Height Calibration

[Ricky Bobby]

Originally Posted by bcredliner

If you lower a corner to the height you want and then drive it the height should decrease more than it did before the driving. The converse is true. It may be that when you lower the right front it is raising the left rear but the amount you are changing it would be very very little if at all. You can test that by dropping the left front a few lbs. and see if the right rear height increases.

Your X should have been in alignment when you started process.

If you are trying to get it exact you will be at it a long time and the first time you do something that changes the camber it will change ride height. It is very hard to tell it is not level unless you are out more than a half inch and the alinement after will likely will close that gap. If I get mine a little over or under 1/2 inch it is good enough for government work and it looks level to me, though I am cross eyed in one eye.

If you are lowering the height and after driving it is higher, I don't know what that could other than perhaps if you are checking height with engine off the pressure increases when the engine is on.

Totally understand and thanks for the tips, I figured when the suspension settles the height should be slightly lower, kind of funny how mine popped up a bit. I understand I can't get it exact but I may play with it further in anticipation of it going up slightly, like I said last week it was just about 3/8" lower after calibrating. So I might put it down 3/4" in anticipation of it coming up 3/8" if that is what the normal "settled height" is that I currently have going on.