Getting JoyRider installed next week

alexleblanc wrote:

rhagfo wrote:

Lantley wrote:
For those adding shocks. Do you also have air ride pin box or hitch?
I have an air ride hitch and my RV travels very smoothly. Air hitch seems to make a big difference. Will shocks make things even smoother.

I consider an air ride pin box that last step, to get rid of the small remaining roughness, not the first step.
I still have a bit of a light pin, 5er travels so much better with the FW tank full. I believe in correcting the "root Cause" first then using a Mor-Ryde or air hitch to finish getting the smoothest ride.

While some state they don't see a difference with shocks, our 5er rides so much better with them than before. We will be adding a correct track system soon and that should solve a slightly nose high condition.

above all else isn't the air ride pin box much better for the RV frame as it takes away a ton of the road shock away?

I'm thinking that and good tires, shocks and a quality Equalizer is going to make it as good as it can be (on a reasonable budget after all) pending moving some of the weight around in the 5er to perfect the load balance.

That is the job of the TV shocks, that was the 1st step Bilstein's 5100's all around. now the back of the TV rides smooth.
Before we got the shocks on the 5er, hit a road buckle on 101, that was big enough that it looked like the 5er's tires left the ground when they hit it! TV did fine, since the addition of the shocks on the 5er, it rides so much smoother, and far less bounce when traveling over rough roads.