Suspension problem?
This is about my minivan conversion. When driving, the van feels like it is extremely topheavy and overloaded, but it is not. My gear weighs about the same as the seats I took out, and the heavy st...
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j-d wrote:
The broken sway bars I've seen, have incorporated tubing and various welds to form what looks at first glance like a solid bar. I have not seen a broken solid bar.
These vans, some had tubular and some solid. From the cracks, I would say mine is tubular.
My guess is that the cracks mean that your bar is not acting as a torsion spring any more. In other words, not doing what it was designed to do. That something is prevent a rolling movement by transferring weight to the side that would sway up.
Ah. Good point.
I did the add-a-leaf fix on our first Class C. It stopped the swaying and bottoming the coach had when we bought it. It did, however, raise the rear above level relative to the front. I'm pretty sure our front springs were sagged too, just never changed them. I'd suspect your fronts, as well as rears, are tired out.
My opinion, and I say it realizing others may disagree, adding a gizmo like air shocks, shocks with coil springs over them, booster springs, coil spring spacers, etc etc aren't long term solutions. A failed spring needs a new spring.
Yeah. I do have new coil-over shocks on the van. Because I thought they were the problem :/.
