Born Free Owners!!! Help!

I would suggest that you have airbags installed in the rear with the optional pressure gage and inflate/deflate switch installed right on the dash along with the small electrically operated compressor installed in the engine compartment. This all comes as an optional kit for airbags.

With this arrangement, you would normally have just a small amount of pressure in the bags as indicated by the pressure gauge - say 10-20 lbs.. Whenever you want to exit/enter your driveway just hit the inflate switch and jump the pressure up to 80-90 lbs. This should instantly raise the rear of your coach two inches or more. Afterwards just hit the deflate switch to bring the airbag pressure back down to 10-20 lbs. or any other slightly higher pressure ... as required to keep the rear end of your RV level at all times.

Also, with separate air pressure controls in the dash for the right and left airbags in the rear, you can even level your RV a bit at campsites by using different pressures in each rear airbag.

This is a relatively inexpensive way to add a lot of flexibility to your rig.

I don't know if this helps. This is our Vanguard 22 foot. Probably similar to your Born Free. E350 etc. We gained a solid 1.5 inches on the back with a set of HD Supersprings. Also improved handling. Around 450 bucks.

Marsha posted on Tech Issues and it wasn't clear to many that a Born Free wasn't a trailer. Better to discuss this issue here.
I got to wondering if she couldn't make something up to ease the driveway that was put in place only to come and go, tucked away nearby the rest of the time.
Now that she and other Born Free owners are saying bottoming is a common issue, and Marsha's saying it's a problem away from the driveway, sounds like a mod to the coach itself is appropriate.
On Tech, I'd mentioned that the coach we added helper leaves to didn't bottom anymore but we always had to raise the front about one 2*8 thickness to be level on a level site. Our current coach hasn't had anything added to the rear springs, but it still sits nose-low. About one plank's worth again. Having to "level on level" isn't the end of the world. If raising the rear a little solves a bunch of problems, then so be it. In the case of the coach we added leaves to, we relieved both bottoming and sway. This made the extra leveling inconvenience a price we were glad to pay. On the current coach, the extra leveling isn't anything worth the expense and effort (like front airbags or new springs) to correct.

Go to Leap N Lions RV Club site.
There is a active thread that try's to solve your tail dragging issues.

Tough question to answer: Raise the tail using Airbags or added leafs may help.
Airing your tires fully, approaching the driveway at an angle, try backing into the driveway at the proper angle?
My Born Free came with Airbags from the factory - when properly filled tail dragging has not been a problem.

MarshaNichols wrote:
I have been trying to get help with a bottoming out problem but, I think, unless a person has a Born Free, they are not understanding my question. Anyway, I have a 2013, 24' Born Free (bath in back)on a Ford 350-V-10. I am hitting bottom going from my road to my driveway (25%) and many times going out of a store driveway. Born Free said okay for CW to move the rollers 2"-3" back...which I did, but I am still hitting. Yes, the rollers are doing their job, but are not going to last much longer! Options, as I see it, are boards to drive on, or larger rollers, or air bags...and lastly ($$$)fixing my driveway. I live in the country but on a common road...therefore, I can't go at an angle nor can I fool with the road...only my driveway. Complicated. Any ideas from Born Free owners...THANK YOU!! (I have checked Leaping Lions but haven't seen anything)

I have owned a Born Free for over 10 years. It has ALWAYS bottomed-out on grades. Nothing can be done about it either. Your coach is new and shares the same problem as every Born Free since at least my year unit. You just have to live with it from my research.

Try the wooden boards/ strip of plywood build up.. on the driveway.
Thats what I would do as a first alternative.

Maybe put the board in the gutter, where your driveway meets the street pavement.

Have somebody watch your "bottom" as you drive into your driveway.
Get a real "Handy..man" type person and see what he or she says.

in 2001 we had a born free 23ft did the same thing. its time for air bags, if your handy you can do it.

It sounds like the load on the rear springs may possibly contribute to your situation, the rear end setting closer to the road surface than desired.

Changing to larger diameter rollers will only increase the frequency of your bottoming out.

You may want to look at installing an Add-a-Leaf which might produce a stiffer ride or installing air bags at the rear axle.