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- tycreekExplorerI'd recommend getting your caster adjusted near max. It will help greatly with highway stability and handling. If your drift is yaw or wag then a rear trac bar controls that motion. If your drift is to the left on freeway type surfaces but fine on secondary roads, maybe you have an alignment tuned for crowned roads (cross camber/caster).
The question ... yes, shocks with increased dampening work great to fix the driver, not the vehicle. Return to center stabilizers like the STP are best for freeway type surface travel IMO where center adjustment is consistent. I've removed return to center stabilizers in favor of increased dampening without a center bias because my travels are mostly back roads. - HarvardExplorerToo little front end +caster will manifest itself as loose steering (and wandering) at highway speeds.
The Ford specified caster range is from +1.5 to +7.5 degrees. From my observations over the past 6 years it appears the E series comes off the Ford production set at about +3.5 degrees which is OK for city driving but very undesirable on the highway. Some RV builders do an alignment after building the body but many do not. You want to get up to LH +5.0 and RH +5.5 degrees for good results.
Google Ford E450/E350 caster for lots of info.
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