Well I now too have "sperience". My experience is that even with Bilstein HD shock, airbags in truck suspension and proper correct air pressure the experience of towing with severe chucking and bone rattling jolt's can be made markedly better with a reasonable investment.
After installing a Mor-Ryde Pin box and an upgraded Demco coupler onto my old Hijacker hitch I had my first tow today back over the same roads I just drove a week ago before the upgrades.
I could immediately notice a vast improvement as I pulled out of the driveway onto the gravel road and got onto the freeway.
The pinbox created a cushioned isolation affect between the truck and trailer.
I could not longer feel the secondary sharp jolt's of the trailer going over the expansion joint's and potholes in the roads. The sharp jolt's and chucking are now very muted and has a cushioned or isolated feel.
The concrete road we were on I know very well and this is the first trip over it in many years when I did not become uptight and tense, dreading every mile and every broken section of patched concrete. While it was not perfect it was more than bearable.
My wife said this road always caused my Tourette's syndrome to burst forth with very jolt and bone jarring rattle. But today there was none of that at all.
My wife commented that for the first time in a long time she did not have a sore neck from all the chucking and jolt's.
I chose not to install a air hitch since I had the supplemental airbag's on the suspension and found I could upgrade my old hitches coupler.
While the old coupler was very secure it was very sloppy around the pin being the old style with simply a large bar of steel going across holding the pin into a "U shaped" steel plate. The replacement coupler encloses the pin fully encompassing it tightly all the way around.
At this point I do not feel that an additional $2900 investment is needed.
