Leaning Jeep

After I had my new Jeep a short time, I noticed it leaned down on one side.
I asked my Jeep dealer about it, but he indicated that some Jeeps "just did that".
I lived with it for a long time, then one evening I was working in my shop with a friend
and I mentioned it to him. Now this guy is a Pennsilviana Yankee, and he is just full of
practical ideas.

His idea was to place two jacks on the frame and jack up the Jeep on the passengers side
to a measured height, with the wheels off the ground. Then, from a point on the frame,
we measured from the bottom of the frame to the ground.
We measured and recorded the distance every 6 inches or so.



Then we moved to the other side and did the same thing. We compared the measurments and found them
to be about the same on each side. This indicated that the frame wasn't bent, but the frame rails
were not in the same plane. There was a twist between the rails

We then jacked the Jeep up, placing jacks on the front right bumper and the left rear draw bar.
We jacked it up until all four wheels were off the ground. There was quite a twist in the Jeep,
but opposite of what we started with.



We lowered the Jeep back down on the floor and checked what we had. It was obvious that
there was less sag, but we still had some.

We jacked it back up, jumped up and down on the vehicle and then took a small sledge
hammer and hit all the rivets that connected the crossmembers to the frame.
(backing them up on the inside of the frame with a large ball pein hammer)

This time when we lowered the Jeep to the ground, it looked great!
Measurments from the body to the ground confirmed how much good we had done!

We did this one evening in 1976, and as the Jeep is still standing straight, I consider the
fix a complete success.