GeoBoy wrote:
06Fargo wrote:
A truck with a good stiff frame and solid axles on very flexible suspension works well in non Walmart parking lot boondocking conditions :):
Clicky
Well then that eliminates the Ford.
I have taken my F350/Outfitter combo on MUCH worse trails then that supposedly tough Land Rover test track in the video link.
I was out in Johnson Valley working the King of the Hammers event and had to get my camper out to a remote road crossing I was working alone, since I was going to be there almost 24 hours. I was digging furrows with my jack feet and using my hitch as a skid plate as I worked my way through wash after wash.
The BIG issue with a "flexible" suspension is that you loose weight capacity. Unless you have a custom set-up designed ($$$). This is something Off Road Magazine found out with their "White Whale" project where they set up a Super Duty with a prerunner type flexible suspension and then tried to carry a truck camper. Didn't work as the weight required the installation of air-bags which in turn negated the flexibility of the suspension. So even though the fault wasn't their's Outfitter was gracious enough to buy the camper back.
A former member on RV.net (the late Don Curley) also found this to be true when he reluctantly bought into the dealership's assurances that the Dodge Power Wagon could handle his fully loaded Apex 8. It wallowed like a drunken sailor on the Highway and was so tippy it almost went over on the trails. He ended up forcing them to buy him out of the truck (got every penny back) and getting the truck he knew he needed in the first place. Though that meant he was now stuck with the new for 2007 diesel smog, that he had problems with but that's another story.
