Help with preload for a ladder bar/coil over car
 

looking for help suggestions

Re: Help with preload for a ladder bar/coil over car
 

What is the issue?

Re: Help with preload for a ladder bar/coil over car
 

Re: Help with preload for a ladder bar/coil over car
 

Does it go left or right off line?

This suspension always is a struggle for me for as simple a deal
that it is!

Re: Help with preload for a ladder bar/coil over car
 

Car usually works well and leaves straight. Every so often it will tend to go right, and the rare occasion when it spins it goes to the right.

Re: Help with preload for a ladder bar/coil over car
 

if the car is working good and goes straight most of the time then I would say maybe you are out of the groove when the car goes right. There are only a couple of reasons that a ladder bar car will go left or right at the hit. first is the rear is not square in the car. Second the front holes in the ladder bar mount are worn or elongated. Check both very carefully. Typically preload is not needed if the car is set up properly. My car I ladder bar and coil over. One other thing is I don't set the car up with the shocks on it. I have some struts that I made to go where the shocks mount the same length that I run the shocks. Set it up neutral with the struts then re install the shocks and set the ride height of the shocks exactly where it was with the struts.

Re: Help with preload for a ladder bar/coil over car
 

Check that the rear is square in the car, measure circumference of slicks and compare.

Re: Help with preload for a ladder bar/coil over car
 

That's really not unusual OP, the rotation of the rear-end on low hp cars controls the dynamics of the chassis. A little pre-load takes care of that, but pre-load is a last resort. There's other avenue's besides pre-load depending on what we're working with. Do you have double adjustable coil-over shocks on the back of the car? What kind? How many clicks of adjustment?

Do you have double adjustable struts/shocks on the front? or single? or no adjustment up front?

Re: Help with preload for a ladder bar/coil over car
 

If it’s only on occasion , are both tires getting an equal burnout and heat? Out of groove like previously mentioned would make sense too.

Re: Help with preload for a ladder bar/coil over car
 

If the rear of the car has a tendency to go right on the burnout. it's wearing the left rear tire. If this is the case, this can be taken cleaned up with a shock adjustment, if we have D/A shocks in play on the car.