supermanwv

The rear of my truck sags a lot when towing my 1300-1500 pound pop-up camper, especially if I have two bicycles in the truck bed. So I bought some helper springs that bolt to the rear of the springs behind the axles. They seem to help with it sagging so much....but here is the thing...

Even without the helper springs mounted...the drivers side of my truck sits 1/2 inch to 3/4 of an inch higher than the passenger side in the rear of the truck...the front of the truck is the same on both sides. (ALL MEASUREING IS DONE FROM THE GROUD TO THE FINDER OPENING DIRECTLY AT CENTER OF THE WHEEL.) The only thing I can see is any different between the driver side and passenger side is this....AND I NEED TO KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT, OR IF IT IS NORMAL...

The shackle on the rear of the leaf springs....if I measure from the bottom of the frame rail to the bottom of the shackle with the truck sitting firmly on the ground (not on a jack or jack stands), the driver side shackle hands down further than the passenger side...by about the same distance that the fender heights are off. I CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHY THIS IS. It doesn't seem as though anything is bent...both side look the same other than the shackles.

What could be the problem, and is it bad for my truck to be off that much? Could it be that one set of springs is worn out more than the others?

Is there a cheap set of springs (STOCK CONFIGURATION) that I can buy that will give more payload, but keep the truck at stock height.

Or maybe I just need another set of good stock springs from the same model year....that may be better than mine. My truck only has 72,000 miles on it though, so I wouldn't think they would be worn out...unless the first owner treated them badly.

Anyway...any info you can give will help.

Thanks

Clark (SupermanWV)