Let's play "Guess the repair!" Update with answer!

goin camping

Explorer
Update below.

I'll tell you what the symptoms are and you guess what's wrong.

The truck is a stock 2002 Chev. Suburbam 2500 4X4 with an 8.1

Front drivers fender is 2-3 inches lower to the tire than the passenger side.

Front end groans on some right turns.

Post your guesses and the answer from Dale's (Front end shop) will decide the winner.

Feel free to post your own "Guess the repair challenges."

And the answer is.....

Front left hub bearings shot. Scary how much it was slopping in and out. Had it replaced. On measuring the gaps on a flat surface the difference was 3/4 inch. Rods adjusted and the front end aligned. The entire front end was really out of whack but it tracked straight down the street.

All of you who guessed broken rod or key have an out in that I measured the distance on an uneven surface and gave you bad info in the OP.

Side note, Blinker fluid level is fine so those that guessed that one...
 
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Buliwyf

Viking with a Hammer
Sounds like your 8.1 has a bad flywheel/flexplate.



The above posters beat me to my real answers.
 

Buliwyf

Viking with a Hammer
Somehow a Cummins 6BT5.9's "roll pin of death" failed so bad that it flung pieces of its front cover all the way across the street into your engine that then failed, and overheated melting your control arm bushings.
 

locrwln

Expedition Leader
Rear torsion bar crossmember is broken away from frame and/or bushings are worn out/gone. Front bumpstop is damaged/missing as well allowing front to "collapse."

Jack
 

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