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Snipewarrior
Explorer
Mar 03, 2015

RV Rearend Level

Members, I have a 40' Grand Sport...the rearend of my rig is very low, the angle of departure is very bad...I have a 4" roller on the underside which in my opinion seems to be a very weak response to this problem....So, I am trying to wrack my brain to figure out how to solve it...a larger roller doesn't solve it....Question, has anyone done or heard of anyone putting some type of secondary airbags or air/hydraulic shocks that have a switch in the cab...so when we come off the freeway and enter the cities and residential neighborhoods with dips in and out of every driveway...we could inflate the bags or shocks and raise the rear end to an acceptable level. If so, name and manufacturers of such products...
Thanks
Jimmi V.
Class C

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  • BobK53's avatar
    BobK53
    Explorer
    Mar 05, 2015
    I have a friend who added some type of suspension assist on the rear axle. I don't know what brand he used but he said that it helps a lot. On the Escapees forum (or perhaps in the Escapees magazine) I saw that the overload springs, above the regular rear leaf springs, are often poorly adjusted. If you have overload springs and there is more than three inches from the top of the U-bolt that goes over the overload spring to the bottom of the U-bolt that goes below the regular leaf spring, then it is poorly adjusted. On my springs the distance was over 4 inches.

    The message on the Escapees forum was that after adjusting the open distance on the U-bolt the rear of the RV was raised and handling was greatly improved. With this adjustment you could not change it easily depending on road conditions.

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