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Morryde Suspension and Wet Bolt Upgrade

1L243
Explorer II
Explorer II
I have been wanting to upgrade the suspension on my 2017 Coleman 300tq Toy Hauler with Morryde CRE 3000 and the Wet Bolt kit. I ran into a couple of minor issues durring the installation that I thought I would mention them here.

My Rig only has about 7000 miles on it (off the top of my head guess). The stock components were in pretty good shape. the plastic leaf spring bushing were still in good shape.

The Morryde system replaces the plastic bushings with bronze bushings. The wet bolts will allow you to grease the bushings and moving parts. The shackles are at least twice the thickness of the OEM shackles.

The installation instructions call for raising the trailer so both axles are off the ground on both sides. For me this was a problem because I had just enough jack stands, blocks and jacks for doing one side at a time.


The old


The problem I ran into was getting the leaf springs to line up with the leaf spring bracket and the Morryde equalizer. I am pretty sure this is because I am doing one side of the trailer at a time.

I used a small hydraulic bottle jack to push down on the axle to line up the bolts and I used a ratchet strap to line up the leaf spring with the frame hanger. Besides that everything went pretty smoothly. Took me about 5 hours but I was taking my time.




The New


You have the choice during the installation to face the grease fitting to the inside or outside. My axles are 4400 lb 33 inch on center and I placed them facing out. I can get to them easily without removing he tires. Your application could be different and putting the grease fitting facing in for easier access.


2017 Coleman 300tq by Dutchman Toy Hauler. 34.5 feet long and under 10k Gross. 500 watt Solar 2000 watt Inverter, 1999 Ford F250 2WD 7.3 4R100 DP Tuner, S&B Cold Air Intake, Gauges, 6.0 Trans Cooler, Air Bags.
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ScottG
Nomad
Nomad
Make sure you run grease through those wet bolts right away.
Half of mine weren't even drilled all the way. Just far enough to have zerks pressed in them.

Lantley
Nomad
Nomad
I had the same thought. They are both nice upgrades, but the suspension mod is a bit more affordable.
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KLYoung
Explorer
Explorer
Little bit of a price difference though.

I also agree !
Me-Her-the kids
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Cummins12V98
Explorer III
Explorer III
I concur!!!
2015 RAM LongHorn 3500 Dually CrewCab 4X4 CUMMINS/AISIN RearAir 385HP/865TQ 4:10's
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cummins2014
Explorer
Explorer
Lantley wrote:
I do believe disc brakes are a very worthwhile investment. I also believe drum brakes for large trailers should be obsolete. However the reality is drum brakes are not obsolete even though they are inferior vs. disc brakes.
I do not believe you need to upgrade to disc brakes just because you are upgrading your suspension.
Sure it would be nice to upgrade to disc, but the reality is they are 2 different systems.
It is still worthwhile to upgrade brakes or suspension without upgrading both.


If there was a choice to be made , it would be disc brakes long before the upgraded suspension .,

Lantley
Nomad
Nomad
I do believe disc brakes are a very worthwhile investment. I also believe drum brakes for large trailers should be obsolete. However the reality is drum brakes are not obsolete even though they are inferior vs. disc brakes.
I do not believe you need to upgrade to disc brakes just because you are upgrading your suspension.
Sure it would be nice to upgrade to disc, but the reality is they are 2 different systems.
It is still worthwhile to upgrade brakes or suspension without upgrading both.
19'Duramax w/hips, 2022 Alliance Paradigm 390MP >BD3,r,22" Blackstone
r,RV760 w/BC20,Glow Steps, Enduraplas25,Pedego
BakFlip,RVLock,Prog.50A surge ,Hughes autoformer
Porta Bote 8.0 Nissan, Sailun S637

Fisherguy
Explorer
Explorer
... and they work ...
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Cummins12V98
Explorer III
Explorer III
Because they are CHEAP.
2015 RAM LongHorn 3500 Dually CrewCab 4X4 CUMMINS/AISIN RearAir 385HP/865TQ 4:10's
37,800# GCVWR "Towing Beast"

"HeavyWeight" B&W RVK3600

2016 MobileSuites 39TKSB3 highly "Elited" In the stable

2007.5 Mobile Suites 36 SB3 29,000# Combined SOLD

Fisherguy
Explorer
Explorer
BackOfThePack wrote:
Drums are not only obsolete, theyโ€™re worthless when it really matters.
Be sure to add Anti-lock (Tuson).


Obsolete are they? How come trailers still come with drum brakes then?
06 Dodge Ram 3500 Cummins 6 spd std with a few goodies.

2007 Komfort 274TS, 480 watts solar, Trimetric 2025RV, PD9280, Honda EU2000i, Xantrex SW600

2019 Timber Ridge 24RLS, 600 watts solar, 3-100Ah Lithiums, 12volt Norcold Fridge

Learjet
Explorer
Explorer
I've done the upgrade and to reach some of the grease zerts I use these two items...the first one works great and also locks on to the second angled piece for the hard to reach zerts:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H7LPKKU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1


https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DJHXYN6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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BackOfThePack
Explorer
Explorer
Drums are not only obsolete, theyโ€™re worthless when it really matters.
Be sure to add Anti-lock (Tuson).
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1990 35โ€™ Silver Streak

Cummins12V98
Explorer III
Explorer III
Maybe so but IMHO it's a wast of money to do a half AZZ job. Until you have towed a RV with disk brakes, well ya just don't know. Anyone changing to disks will tell you "I wish I would have done it sooner".
2015 RAM LongHorn 3500 Dually CrewCab 4X4 CUMMINS/AISIN RearAir 385HP/865TQ 4:10's
37,800# GCVWR "Towing Beast"

"HeavyWeight" B&W RVK3600

2016 MobileSuites 39TKSB3 highly "Elited" In the stable

2007.5 Mobile Suites 36 SB3 29,000# Combined SOLD

Vintage465
Nomad
Nomad
I think you need to add "a lot" before coin and "s" to the word coin. Disk brakes are nice and better. Drum brakes have been working for years.
V-465
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