Bouncing on Concrete Roads
We just finished our fourth trip with our new trailer. Been camping for years with a smaller trailer, but just moved to a 31'. I have a situation that I need to figure out when we are on roads th...
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JBarca wrote:mkirsch wrote:WNYBob wrote:
I have the same issue on I90 near Syracuse, NY (the stretch was done with new concrete a few years ago). I notice the bounce in the pickup with or without the trailer, just more pronounced with the trailer.
Between exit 39 and 40. I know that stretch well.
Pretty much any vehicle will gallop down that stretch of road. Slowing down or speeding up are the only choices, to break the harmonic.
H'mm, Odd my rig does not act up on that stretch of road. However the same interstate between exit 55 (the Lackawanna exit outside Buffalo) and the toll booths heading west will set my truck off on anything above 50mph.
There is obviously differences in the truck wheel base, weights, truck suspensions and camper setup that make some worse than others.
You 2 folks have issues between exit 39 & 40 and mine does not. But at exit 55, for sure I do have a problem there. Same road just different location.
That's odd because I've traveled 39-40 and 40-39 dozens of times since the new concrete has been in, in several different vehicles with different wheelbases ranging from compact cars to extended cab trucks, and they ALL gallop to some degree, loaded or unloaded.
The worst has been my DRW regular cab truck. It just kept bouncing harder and harder until I dropped down to 50MPH. At one point I think the wheels were coming off the ground.
