Cabover struts?
When I took my camper out for the first time I felt like the camper was moving to much. A rocking motion more than anything. I had tightened the turnbuckles to where I felt they should be...hand tight...
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My cabover bounces quite a bit when looking at it from the drivers seat going down the road (23' long bed crew cab). But my impression is that it is the truck frame that is flexing rather than the cabover of the camper. Ford had a video a while back showing their truck and a competitors going down a railroad track, with the camera looking back at the bed. It was amazing how much the beds were flexing (of course Ford was flexing less, hence their video).
It seems to me that a cabover strut takes the forces flexing the bed and transfers them to the camper structure, reducing truck flex but increasing internal flexing of the camper. With a wood frame this might not be too bad, but would lead to stress cracking of an aluminum frame. The steel of the frame handles flexing better than aluminum.
This is different from porpoising, in which the whole truck is bouncing as a unit - air bags, upgraded shocks and Torqlifts have helped reduce that.
Also bump stops (the last resort to keep the wheel from hitting the wheel well) are different from the helper springs engager stops which are what is replaced with a Torqlift or DIY.
It seems to me that a cabover strut takes the forces flexing the bed and transfers them to the camper structure, reducing truck flex but increasing internal flexing of the camper. With a wood frame this might not be too bad, but would lead to stress cracking of an aluminum frame. The steel of the frame handles flexing better than aluminum.
This is different from porpoising, in which the whole truck is bouncing as a unit - air bags, upgraded shocks and Torqlifts have helped reduce that.
Also bump stops (the last resort to keep the wheel from hitting the wheel well) are different from the helper springs engager stops which are what is replaced with a Torqlift or DIY.
