Truck springs

[Youare]

If your pocket book is willing the best cure for sag would be to change the coil springs to a higher load capacity or plow package spring. Placing spacers in the coils will limit the travel of the spring but not increase the amount of weight it will uphold.

You are still placing all that weight on the springs but limiting the amount of motion the spring can move, making it shorter.
The rubber spacer will compress after the spring has compressed to the point where the rubber compression is less than the spring compression.

This will put more wear on the coils that are free to move as they now have to flex more to absorb the weight and motion of the front end.

Randy

 

[Egon]

The springs have not sagged. It's just that the front end is too bouncy for my liking.

I agree that the rubber coil makes the spring shorter but so far it does exactly what I want.

Also realize a spring of proper length and stiffness would be much better.

These cost $22 dollars which is much less than new springs.

Egon

 

[RobertN]

Ok... It is too bouncy! Mine annoys me over the dratted speed bumps in our neighborhood...

How old are your shocks? Has it done this since new?

When I replace the shocks on mine('01 Ram2500 Cummins 4x4), I will go with the shocks I put on my Ford; Rancho RS9000's. They are an adjustable shock. I was able to tailor them to my tastes. They were easy to adjust when I had the added weight of the 11' camper, and readjust when I took it off too.

Seems to me the manual adjust model was about $225, but that was six years ago. They have a model that can be adjusted from a console in the cab, but I don't know how much they are.

 

[Egon]

I'm on my third complete set of shocks. The truck is fine for normal usage but with the camper and/or trailer I would like a stiffer front end. Current shocks are Monroes. $ 150 apiece up here. Could put a bolt on dual shock adapter but that would be about $1200. dollars by the time I'm through.

Egon

 

[RobertN]

You have a similar situation to what I had. I found the adjustable shock worked well. When the camper was off, I backed the fronts down. When it was on, it was a quick turn of the knob to stiffen it up. I did not worry so much about the back, although I would on occasion turn them up just a bit when the camper was on.

I will get them again for this truck. I am at 63k miles, and my shocks are ok, but will get replaced sometime soon.

I can't remember for sure, but think they were in that $225 range. They installed like any other shock, so I did them myself.

Here is some info: www.gorancho.com/dial_a_ride.stm#

I did a quick search and found them for $65/ea...(US)