Ram 2500 coil vs Ram 3500 leaf: squat test
Test RV is a 40' Silverback 5er. It has 4 slide outs, one over the hitch. It has a 15,500# GVWR. Loaded as it was, the 5ers pin weight is likely over 2500#. His truck is a 2014 Ram 3500 S...
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Huntindog wrote:
The 3500 should have overload leaf springs, that are just coming into play. What this means is that the more weight you put on it, the stiffer it becomes. A word for this is progressive.
It will handle towing heavy much better because of this.
The 2500 with coil springs will not stiffen up with heavy weight. It will tend to wallow when towing. It is somewhat possible to make a progressive coil spring, but I haven't heard of anyone doing it on a stock truck.. Even if they did, it would not have the overloads that are possible with leaf springs.
So just because they have equal squat...... Doesn't mean squat.:B
Ram dropped the overloads on 3500 SRW trucks in 2010, so just a single leaf pack without upper overloads.
I though stock applications where using progressive coils, but I could be wrong.
But you are correct that the coil springs can wallow more, depending on shock design, but the swaybar will help that too. There is only a 500# difference between the two in RAWR thou.
