Suspension Improvements - Best Order

pnichols wrote:
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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.

Like you I replaced old worn out shocks with new shocks. Like you I noticed an instant change for the good.
You put on the koni's FSD's , I put on the Bilstein's not once but twice on older MH's and noticed the instant change for the better.

Now reading comments like yours a few post up and others, I bought into the koni's FSD's being the mighty best invention since sliced bread.

Boy was I wrong ! The front end dives on every dip in the road what Whizbang seems to be getting confused with swaying.

Here is a blog about porpoising and you can feel good because it talks about the koni's FSD shock. ;)

http://blog.goodsam.com/porpoising-what-it-is-and-how-to-stop-it

Like another post I said the Koni's helped with the slam over the bridge joints and major cracks in the road.
BUT so did the Bilstein's and had I gone with them I'd have close to $300 in my pocket.
The place where I had my alignment done stated how the koni's were designed to work as you described...Rebound BUT I'll take a front end NOT diving down every time I hit a dip in the road over the uneasy feeling of the knoi's .. They sell both the Bilstein's and Koni's But I think they were a little bias, the co-owner was wearing a jacket with a koni patch on it... lol

I'll leave the koni's on the rear, but I see in the near future swapping the konis FSD's out for Bilstein's in the front..