The passenger rear sits about an inch or better higher than the drivers side. I do know I need new bushings and have them on order. For now I tried dropping the passenger side by loosening the nut on the bolt, I assumed this was the right way to go with it since lowering bolts are longer. I can see where the rear leaf slipped down the bolt were I loosened it but I swear it is now a little higher. This is after a drive to settle it

 

Lots of C3 suffer from that condition. There doesn't seem to be a good solution to it.

I tried adjusting the rear spring bolt, but it doesn't do much for unequal side to side height. It pushes up the car in the rear on both sides.

If you turn your wheels you can see that the car really reacts very heavily to one of the front sides beigin higher. So my assessment of this condition is that the cause of it is to be found in unequal height in the front.

I have ordered a coil spring spacer to correct it.

 

I just had the front springs done. I was thinking the uneven back was the cause of my uneven front.

 

Mine was about an inch lower on the drivers side which settled okay when I adjusted the nut up on that side, but since I have changed the front springs the car now sits even with both bolts on the back the same. I used the 460lb springs which are 7 coil v's the stock 10 coil ones, the 460 lb springs are 2 inches shorter than the stock ones but the car rides one inch higher with the new ones. Verdict, the old springs were sacked out but made the stance look good and the car ride harder than the heavier 460lb springs!

 

My '75 does the exact same thing. I measured all four fender heights when I was looking to buy the car. The car drove so straight at highway speeds that I bought it anyway.

 

You could remove the spring, do a 180 with it, reinstall. T

 

If you look how the rear suspension is built up, with the leaf spring under the differential, if you bolt up, one side, it will raise the diff, but the uneveness will stay. I had mine more than 1 inch up left vs right, with the body in total sitting higher.

The thing is the front is different as well, but not as much.

I then jacked up the rear left side, so that the frame would sit straight in the back (measured approx. where the rear mufflers are). The fender heights were correct then. I also checked the front end with the rear jacked up and they were also correct.
Jacking up the front left produced the same results. Go figure.

Now I would have suspected a front end collision/frame damage but this car underwent a total body off resto and during the process I measured the frame
for straightness, using a laser plane. No difference in height/cross distance worth mentioning at the required points.

I'm using the vbp rear 7 leaf spring and the front 550 pound ones. They front's were equal when I checked them out of the car and the rear leaf spring had the correct arch.

I do know that when I got the car that someone cut a coil off one of the springs to try and correct this (incorrect way of doing it BTW).

So this must have been in the car for quite a while.

My assessment is that it must be something that makes one side in the front have less tension (more distance between the lower arm and spring tower maybe) which then causes the front to lean to one side more (in my case the left front, causing the car to diagonally push up the right rear, and lowering the left rear at the same time). This is way I think I need to correct the tension on my left front spring.

I bought an alu 1/2" spacer since that was the height difference left to right. However I cannot tell the results as I have not had the time to mount it, so I cannot tell you the result.

 

Coming back to this old thread.

Last weekend I mounted a set of original gymkhana front coils. This is how much different they are compared to the vbp 550 coils.



I didn't use the spacer yet. The car sits at normal ride height but I have about 20 mm .79" difference left to right in the sense that the right front is 20 mm higher than the left front and in the back it's the other way around.

I have been measuring what can cause this, but I have found nothing.

Any ideas ?

 

Mine is exactly the same way. I've replaced the front springs and rotated the rear spring 180* but nothing changed.

 

This is not the right way to fix it, but when you have exhausted all other possibilities and just want it to sit level. You can use a taller spacer on one end of the front sway bar where it attaches to the lower control arm. Like I said, not the preferred fix, but it makes it sit level.

 

A very odd situation : I put a carpenters straight edge on the spring towers and they are horizontal. I measured a lot of place of the frame and knuckle in the front and it seems to be correct.

In the rear though the left trialing arm sits closer to the frame than the right. Spring is at approximatly the same height left to right. Cannot see any reason for that condition however. No indication of frame damage or anything.