Chucking - trouble shooting

dkuntz wrote:
I’ve found a few strings in the forum on this topic. I’ve come to the point where I’ve concluded there isn’t a silver bullet to resolve the issue unless I want to spend several thousand on a TrailSaver hitch in the truck - which only eliminates the feel of the chucking, not necessarily the chucking. That being said, I’m looking for advice on where to start the process of elimination to first minimize the chucking coming from the trailer, and then the steps to minimize the impact at the truck.
1) Fill the trailer/truck so its loaded similar to how I will be camping and use that as a baseline for the chucking.
2) Add equalizers/shocks to the leaf springs on the trailer
3) Upgrade the factory king pin on the 5W to a MorRyde type rubber pin box
4) If that doesn’t eliminate 95% of the chucking on the truck, then I may have to look at getting an air system hitch on the truck.

For those that will ask; I have a 2019 2500 Duramax, pulling a 2020 5W Keystone Cougar 1/2 ton 29MBS. I’m within all charts/weights/etc. King Ping weight is 1,700lbs. Tire pressures are as spec’d (even though I don’t agree with the people on the forums that this matters with chucking). I added B&W gooseneck hitch to the truck frame and bought the Andersen Ultimate hitch in the truck bed along with the locking plate to the king pin box. The trailer has a front bedroom, middle bunk house, and kitchen in the rear. Cougar has stock “Road Armor” suspension system on the axles. I’ve only towed it so far completely empty from the dealer and to the storage facility. The chucking was miserable.

1) Make sure you're towing level.
2) Quick 'n dirty way to weigh down your FW is to simply fill all the holding tanks, then drive 40-50 miles on various roads to see how it handles.

A lot of what you're feeling is simply trailer bounce, especially if you don't have shocks, because you're empty. I know that when I bought my KZ and drove it home from the dealer, about 70 miles, it wasn't a real comfortable trip. After I loaded it up with stuff, even the little we normally carry (no more than 500 lbs, mostly in the front storage), it rode some better. When we went to our annual family boondocker, it towed =really= nice with 61 gallons of fresh water in the tank.

I know that, if we are ever to take a =long= road trip, like thousands of miles, I'd seriously consider adding the Joy Rider shock system, at minimum, or their Liberty Rider spring/shock package. The Liberty Rider changes the standard springs to "slipper" springs, where there's only one end of the springs that's bolted on; the other end is free to "slip", giving more play to the spring. I know that our 30' GN trailer has triple axles with slipper springs and it rides pretty darn nice, even empty.

Lyle