Suspension Improvements - Best Order
So what is the consensus best order of suspension improvements on a E450 motorhome? My guess: Proper tire pressure Front end alignment Rear Sway Front Sway Shocks Steering Stabilizer Rear Tr...
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Scratching my head and thinking about it ... what you say doesn't seem to add up physics-wise.
Most Class C owners think they need the single action heavy duty (which pretty much means "all the time stff") Bilstein, Monroe, or standard Koni shocks for good control. "Good control" usually meaning control of sway, leaning, wind-push swaying, and front-to-back rocking. Stiff shocks is what's needed for these situations.
For the rapid motions resulting from roadway cracks and potholes it seems to make sense that the last thing needed would be shock stiffness added to leaf spring stiffness. If this is true, the high frequency mode of the Koni FSD shocks (not Koni's standard shocks) .... which as I understand results in momentary reduced damping ... is what's needed. In other words "no shock at all" is what's needed on the rapidly occuring ("high frequency motion") edges of cracks and potholes.
OFDPOS wrote:
If those were the OEM shocks, any of the new Bilstein's , Monroe, Koni's shocks would have helped with the slam/pounding.
Scratching my head and thinking about it ... what you say doesn't seem to add up physics-wise.
Most Class C owners think they need the single action heavy duty (which pretty much means "all the time stff") Bilstein, Monroe, or standard Koni shocks for good control. "Good control" usually meaning control of sway, leaning, wind-push swaying, and front-to-back rocking. Stiff shocks is what's needed for these situations.
For the rapid motions resulting from roadway cracks and potholes it seems to make sense that the last thing needed would be shock stiffness added to leaf spring stiffness. If this is true, the high frequency mode of the Koni FSD shocks (not Koni's standard shocks) .... which as I understand results in momentary reduced damping ... is what's needed. In other words "no shock at all" is what's needed on the rapidly occuring ("high frequency motion") edges of cracks and potholes.
