Front end problems on ride home.
Ah you all gotta love us newbies. Full of ignorant questions. :) and I've got another! Maybe a few more. Just purchased our 2000 Newmar dutch star on a p30 chassis with a gmc 7.4. The owner in...
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I think you did well for 900.00. The shop has to make something. The springs by themselves should work fine, and its true airbags are a week point in the system that will inevitably go out before the springs do. As another post indicated, Alignment is very important. I would also include good shocks. Old worn shocks will over work your new springs causing them to fatigue early.
On a long tail rv with one back axle, Air bags are good for adjusting positive or negative camber when you change the weight ratio from front to back with a heavy tongue boat or cargo trailer, also adjusting side to side for suspension wear or luggage etc. You cannot let them run too low on air or they will be ruined. I do have a psi monitoring system because I raise the back when I go on dirt roads and cross creeks. With a loaded 16 ft cargo trailer I lower to 30 psi in the front. With the toad I run 60 in the front. (no tongue wt.)
If you decide to add airbags later, Stim, an earlier post said he installed through the bottom A arm without disassembly. My older rig only only has a small hole for the air inlet. I agree with the others about the springs you got, I only had 2 choices from Napa and I got the heavier duty ones, probably not as good as those.
Hope you don’t have too many more surprises like that again… But you probably will, That’s part of the adventure ?
Ps Where but rv.net can you get 4 pages of opinions on a repair question??? Isn’t it great?
On a long tail rv with one back axle, Air bags are good for adjusting positive or negative camber when you change the weight ratio from front to back with a heavy tongue boat or cargo trailer, also adjusting side to side for suspension wear or luggage etc. You cannot let them run too low on air or they will be ruined. I do have a psi monitoring system because I raise the back when I go on dirt roads and cross creeks. With a loaded 16 ft cargo trailer I lower to 30 psi in the front. With the toad I run 60 in the front. (no tongue wt.)
If you decide to add airbags later, Stim, an earlier post said he installed through the bottom A arm without disassembly. My older rig only only has a small hole for the air inlet. I agree with the others about the springs you got, I only had 2 choices from Napa and I got the heavier duty ones, probably not as good as those.
Hope you don’t have too many more surprises like that again… But you probably will, That’s part of the adventure ?
Ps Where but rv.net can you get 4 pages of opinions on a repair question??? Isn’t it great?
