Area13 wrote:
I didn't have a good experience with the energy suspension bump stops.
If you are completely supporting the truck with the Energy Suspension bump stops, then you are doing it wrong. :) Well, not wrong, but that's not what Bedlam or I were doing. We/I are simply using them to fill the space between the overloads and bump stops because we were using airbags.
In other words, not instead of airbags/timbrens or upper stableloads. Torklifts image although technically correct is not quite what we are recommending. Upper stableloads are much stiffer and would be better for the case of using them instead of air bags or in the case you wanted more overload deflection.
In the OP case, (we think) he also has a gap between the upper bump stop and overloads. Energy Suspension bump stops work well for that purpose. Again, the primary reason to use them is to fill the space and add stability when using air bags.
For those keeping score, using Energy Suspension bump stops goes all of the way back to at least 2005 when I started reading this forum. I never looked to see who was the first implementer. That also predates Torklift stableloads, fwiw.
