Body Roll - What Have You Done?

Even the pushers have body roll. Just something to live with.

Not a CHF but the outboard airbags on Prevost, Newell, Fortravel, and Monaco reduces body roll to almost nil. One of the main reason I went with another Monaco when I upgraded recently.

We installed after market air bags on our 1999 National Tropical and the ride and handling improved drastically.

If you haven't already, replace your sway bar bushings. On my 1999 when I first got it a few years ago, I had pretty bad body roll, or sway. I checked on the bushings and they were deteriorated to the point of basically being gone! Replaced them with poly bushings front and rear, and the majority of sway was gone. Its an hour or so driveway job....not hard at all!

BIG front and rear sway bars.

Look underneath at the sway bar ends. If their are 2 holes on each end, move the links to the inside holes. Be sure to check for clearance on the rear SB when raised, to see if it will hit the third member. If it does, longer links will be required.

wildmanbaker wrote:
Look underneath at the sway bar ends. If their are 2 holes on each end, move the links to the inside holes. Be sure to check for clearance on the rear SB when raised, to see if it will hit the third member. If it does, longer links will be required.

Unfortunately, my frame was manufactured one year too early for that.

Bought new Honkooks on ours and after driving raised the air pressure to 110 and way helped the body roll

Rear sway bar (they are really anti-sway bars, but everyone calls them sway bars). I just ordered a Hellwig one for my F53. On my last trip (last weekend) I also pumped my airbags up to 70psi and that helped eliminate most of the body roll.

Al

F4Jock wrote:

wildmanbaker wrote:
Look underneath at the sway bar ends. If their are 2 holes on each end, move the links to the inside holes. Be sure to check for clearance on the rear SB when raised, to see if it will hit the third member. If it does, longer links will be required.

Unfortunately, my frame was manufactured one year too early for that.

Then your only option is to add an after market sway bar. Many times it is in addition to the stock sway bar. If you do not have a rear pan hard bar, getting one will make a large difference in handling. Sumos or Timbrens will also help with side to side rocking as they increase the spring rate, and will resist sway.