Koni FSD shocks

Curing a lean on a leaf spring coach can be reasonably easily cured.

In most cases, as plate can be installed between the axle and spring to raise that corner of the coach. If a material difference side to side, might add a leaf.

What Brett suggested is true. You want to be careful increasing the spring rate on one side, especially on the front. Unbalancing the spring rate is helpful in a race car that only turns left, but not recommended to one that is required to turn both left and right.

If the difference is great enough to require a spring leaf be added to level, you should locate a spring company and explain the problem, and have them make a new set, if they will do it.

Gdlow wrote:

Daveinet wrote:
My guess is the stiff ride you are complaining about has nothing to do with the shocks. Even though your profile does not state it, I would be willing to bet your coach is on a Ford chassis. If I'm right, that should tell you a lot about why the ride is harsh.

It's on the Workhorse chassis

I missed your reply from the first time around. I'm a bit surprised that the Workhorse has a harsh ride with Konis. My parents have a 2004 Workhorse chassis motorhome. It originally had Monroes on it, which handled poorly and road bad. Workhorse recalled the shocks, and installed Bilsteins. At the time, there was significant discussion here on RVnet about Koni FSD, vs Bilstein, and at that time, the consensus was pretty strong toward Koni having a much better/softer ride than Bilstein. I run FSDs on my coach. I found they have almost no compression damping, which makes for a really soft ride. The handling control is from the rebound damping. Have you ever weighed the coach? Maybe it is just too light for a W22.

Daveinet wrote:

Gdlow wrote:

Daveinet wrote:
My guess is the stiff ride you are complaining about has nothing to do with the shocks. Even though your profile does not state it, I would be willing to bet your coach is on a Ford chassis. If I'm right, that should tell you a lot about why the ride is harsh.

It's on the Workhorse chassis

I missed your reply from the first time around. I'm a bit surprised that the Workhorse has a harsh ride with Konis. My parents have a 2004 Workhorse chassis motorhome. It originally had Monroes on it, which handled poorly and road bad. Workhorse recalled the shocks, and installed Bilsteins. At the time, there was significant discussion here on RVnet about Koni FSD, vs Bilstein, and at that time, the consensus was pretty strong toward Koni having a much better/softer ride than Bilstein. I run FSDs on my coach. I found they have almost no compression damping, which makes for a really soft ride. The handling control is from the rebound damping. Have you ever weighed the coach? Maybe it is just too light for a W22.

I currently run 95#'s in front/rear...had weighed (individual wheels)and the recommendation was for 85#'s...So maybe a little over, but didn't want to error on side of under inflation with the heat...The rebound is a big improvement when going thru areas where a dip in a street would keep on a rockin with the Bilstein's...

Slight over inflation on tires should not be a huge issue, and shooting high is probably a wise choice. The context of asking the weight has more to do with the spring rate on a W22 compared to how much the coach actually weighs. I remember when talking to the Allegro Rep when my parents were shopping. The looked at a non-slide 34 foot coach. The Rep stated they would not put that coach on a W22 because it was too stiff and would hurt the ride. They ended up with a 34 foot with 2 slides on the W22. So that really is the context of the question, is the total weight of the coach close enough to the chassis load rating?