2016 Ford Superduty - Aluminium
LINK Looks like it will follow in the F150's foot steps. Only makes sense.
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Speedogomer wrote:
1 lbs weight loss would equal 1 lbs payload gained with the same suspension. .. however it's not that simple. Ford will have to change the suspension calibration to be within their acceptable limits for ride quality. Losing that much weight would reduce ride quality significantly. That's very important to Ford as many many trucks never haul anything other than passengers. So while you may lose 700lbs, you won't gain 700lbs of payload.
Ford should introduce an adjustable four point suspension like RAM's.
If you have a vehicle's weight ranging from, say, 5000# empty to 7500# loaded, a fixed suspension, especially one tuned to the lower weight, will be really inadequate when loaded.
Already F150s have a pretty mushy ride when loaded, or at least mine does. I suspect their suspension is tuned more to the truck's empty weight.
The Superduty suspensions are probably tuned more to loaded weights already, so there are less issues when loaded, and a rougher ride when not. Seems to me that they too could use an adjustable four point suspension if the range of weights becomes, say, 6000-10,000#.
