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grandpalarry
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Aug 05, 2013

2006 Holiday Rambler shocks ????

I have just completed the most harrowing ride of my life on Highwy 101.
The road is like a roller coaster and it makes it very hard to maintain control, which is very important when the lane is 13 foot wide, the bridges up north are 12 foot wide and the lumber trucks own the road.
The road has been patched to death and around mile marker 72 is a poorly patched cave in.
Does my 2006 Holiday Rambler have shock absorbers ??
My wife won't ride in the coach due to the bouncing, she says she gets sea sick.
  • what model HR motorhome you talking about?

    And yes. it has shocks.

    In Oregon, check source engineering or brazels.
  • I replaced the OEM shocks on our 06 Monaco with Konis. It made a big difference in the porpoising and the side roll. Actually it improved more than I thought it would. These are subjective measurements of improvement but I am happy with the results.
  • You must have an HR with the RR4R chassis and it may not be your shocks, but could be a trailing arm problem. The Ambassador and above have the RR8R chassis with 8 shocks and has a very good ride, where the lower models have the RR4R with 4 shocks and a very choppy ride.
  • X2 for Koni shocks. I no longer drive a boat.
  • grandpalarry wrote:
    I have just completed the most harrowing ride of my life on Highwy 101.
    The road is like a roller coaster and it makes it very hard to maintain control, which is very important when the lane is 13 foot wide, the bridges up north are 12 foot wide and the lumber trucks own the road.
    The road has been patched to death and around mile marker 72 is a poorly patched cave in.
    Does my 2006 Holiday Rambler have shock absorbers ??
    My wife won't ride in the coach due to the bouncing, she says she gets sea sick.
    I don't know about your shocks (I'm a Winnebago guy) but those Oregon Hwys. are the worst that I've been on! I was driving on Hwy. #38 just before Reedsport , Oregon (I was cutting across from I-5 to Hwy.101 to get to the Ocean Beaches) my wife asked me to pull over for lunch at the next paved turnout we were following the Umpqua River! When I pulled the RV over onto the paved turnout, I hit a chuck hole that was so deep the cupboards opened up and dishes fell out. When I arrived at Gold Beach, Oregon several hours later, I went to use my hydrolic jacks and hydrolic oil spurted all over. That chuck hole put a twist on the frame that broke one of my hydrolic hoses. Never been on a Oregon Hwy. off of I-5 since!