Frame Stiffing to reduce Porpoising?
Got a question for you seasoned drivers with older rigs. I have a 1999 F350 Dually Quad Cab Long Bed. I've been driving it for thousands of miles and for the most part, it's been fine. However, while ...
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Or to sum up 8 pages, it’s a big camper on a pickup truck. One that arguably flexes more than new trucks and it’s ok.
If you wanna find a shop to disassemble frame cross braces, probably pull the trans, move/re-rout brake lines, fuel lines, electrical, drop the tank etc and then try to fit/cab it all up to fit back in there like it was after doing idk what to the frame, have at it. It’s a bad idea on all fronts.
That’s all. Easy peasy…..
On a similar note I had a new 89 Dodge 1 ton truck at work that the guys would constantly overload so bad it would sit hard on the bump stops. (Not my truck and wasn’t the boss, just a high school kid turning wrenches.).
They broke the frame on one side right over the axle. We paid a shop to repair it. (In 1990).
Then the other side broke the same way. I copied the first repair. And the truck frame was still in one piece years later. But that was FAR easier than what is being proposed here….
And it was a work truck that got the tar beat out of it daily. Whole diffenrrt scenario
If you wanna find a shop to disassemble frame cross braces, probably pull the trans, move/re-rout brake lines, fuel lines, electrical, drop the tank etc and then try to fit/cab it all up to fit back in there like it was after doing idk what to the frame, have at it. It’s a bad idea on all fronts.
That’s all. Easy peasy…..
On a similar note I had a new 89 Dodge 1 ton truck at work that the guys would constantly overload so bad it would sit hard on the bump stops. (Not my truck and wasn’t the boss, just a high school kid turning wrenches.).
They broke the frame on one side right over the axle. We paid a shop to repair it. (In 1990).
Then the other side broke the same way. I copied the first repair. And the truck frame was still in one piece years later. But that was FAR easier than what is being proposed here….
And it was a work truck that got the tar beat out of it daily. Whole diffenrrt scenario
