Rear is lower than the front!

Hello all! The drivers side on my Tacoma seems to have good height and looks well balanced and is even. The passenger side though, looks like the rear is lower than the front. When I measured both driver and passenger rear, the driver side is higher by about 1/2 an inch. Do I have a suspension problem? Thanks.

99 Tacoma Prerunner 2wd, 2.7L automatic.

 

^Sounds like it could be the classic sagging Tacoma leaf springs. The springs on these truck are pretty soft and tend to wear out. When you look at your leafs, do they still look like a smiley face? Or are the flat, or even a frown?

 

Bro lean.

How many miles on your truck/suspension?

You should seen mine with 175,000 miles on the original suspension.

 

Thanks for reply. I just lit a cig and looked at the leafs. There is one leaf that looks like a smile and is really curved. Then there are these other bars that are staggered on top of each other that straight. Am I looking at the right part? thanks

 

I have about 207k on it. thanks

 

thanks again for the replies. how do you fix these issues? get new shocks and leafs? thanks.

207k miles on my tacoma. I just bought it used.

 

New leafs is what will raise the rear. Get new shocks to improve the ride quality.

While we're spending your money... get new coils and shocks up front too.

And all the trimmings to go along with a new suspension.

 

Thanks for the replies. Should i get OEM leafs or are the aftermarket leafs good too? Someone recommended the bilstein 5100s for shocks. Thanks

 

Leafs are one of the only things where OEM isn't a better bet than typical aftermarket

OEM leafs are pretty soft & sit about flat (when they're new); if you add almost any weight at all in the bed, you will start to negative arch your leafs
This isn't necessarily a problem: there's an overload leaf that'll keep you from arching too far down
I just hate the way it squats when you introduce any weight... and once they get old, they'll start to negative arch a bit with no weight
I think Toyota's idea was that it'd improve the "ride-quality" to have soft leafs

Here's some leafs... most of them will give you some lift; don't know how you feel about that:

 

Trying to make up for lost time? If you consolidate your posts we might be able to answer your questions a little better.
Just saying

 

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/product-reviews/266183-generalspringkc-com-hd-leaf-springs.html
This guy says good things about general spring, they aren't primarily for lift either if your aren't looking for much lift

 

In Duluth, Mn there's a company that will take your springs heat them up and recurve them to the factory specs. My dad had this done many years ago on an old amc spirit. I'm planning on having mine recurved next summer. No idea how much they charge. Duluth is just located across the bay from where i live so there's no shipping costs involved. Those shipping costs may be a deal killer for you though. You could give em a call and see what they have to say. Talks cheap

http://www.zenithspring.com/products.html