Autoride suspension & reducing rear height

[Denali'01]

My '01 Denali (non-XL) has much higher ride height in the rear.  How do I level it out?  Can I just extend the sensor rods on the rear suspension height sensors?

Any help would be appreciated!!  I just want to get rid of the rear "jacked-up" look.

Thanks.

[Shaners]

I don't have an answer for you but your suggestion seems like it should work...  I'd ask the dealer to be sure that it won't screw up your proportional braking.  I'd sure hate to have you step on the brakes hard on wet roads and have the truck break loose in the rear because it is sensing a load...

[Markeaux]

So did you try to lower the rear by altering the sensors? ... and where are they, by the shocks???   I am wanting to do same w/ my 01 Tahoe w/ Autoride.

 

Mark

[Markeaux]

Hey Denali'01, I had to replace that upside-down U-shaped plastic trim piece inside the LR of my 01 Tahoe w/ Autoride and got a pretty good look at the ride height sensor.  It looks like the rod should be shortened, to pull the sensor down, not lengthened which pushes the sensor up which is what looks like happens when there is a load in the rear.  Making it shorter might then "relax" the system (but this needs testing) ... maybe by taking one end off and screwing the ball head in some (if possible) would make it shorter ... or the bottom connector has a thing that looks like this  o-o  where (on the left rear) the rod is connected to the first  o  ... looks like the rod could be moved to the last  o  which looks like it might pull the sensor down.

 

This might be totally wrong, I can't really test it right now ... there might be some snafu's with fooling the sensor of course, but I hope somebody can test this out.

 

Mark