Fifth wheel chucking

Do you have shocks on the 5er?

That and a set of Bilstien 5100's on the TV!

I have an '07 3075RL Montana previously pulled by an '07 F350, now by a '12 F350. Long beds so no slider. The Montana has the older Moryde suspension. Did not have much chucking to begin with, only on certain (usually concrete) highway sections. I did add a 5th Airborne air ride pin box and it pretty much eliminated what chucking I did have, as well as softening the overall ride.
But I did have to lower my previous hitch a couple bolt holes to make up for the increased height of the new pin box. My new truck and hitch does not have that adjustment so I now run just a little nose high. Not so much as I am concerned about it though.
The pin box install would have been a little easier with an extra set of hands, but really a pretty simple one man install with a little up front planning.

I added the 5th airborne pin box and have next to no chucking.. I also added the Mor/Ryde IS system... Joe

The Montana does have factory installed shocks.

Since you asked for opinions, I will throw my 2 cents out there.

Before adding any upgrades I would make sure I was at the proper weight ration on the pin box. My 2nd fifth wheel had this issue constantly, and after tons of reading was advised to go to the scales to make sure I was at the proper pin box percentage. Comes to find out I was light and just by dropping the hitch 1 hole the problem mostly corrected itself.

We now have the air safe hitch with out current truck and trailer, but this was a pre-buy to take any stress off the nose when we start full timing.

When making the choice between pinbox and hitch, the choice came down to do we want to upgrade something that we may sell in the future, or go with the hitch that we will have as long as we tow.

Good luck in your quest.

I have been on sections of road with my F-250 Short bed that literally made the 5'r leave the road. The same section in my long bed was nice and smooth. Sometimes the concrete spacing just doesn't work for your vehicle.

We have on occasion experienced that famous chucking, even on the interstate. When driving in the Right lane, we chucked, switched to the left lane, everything OK. Thus we watched our mirrors, and moved to the right when traffic approached. Some roads are just that way.

I had some chucking, and went with a MorRyde. It helped but didn't eliminate it. Added 5100's and now it's pretty good on all but the worst roads. I did a nice 1400 mile loop about 5-6 weeks ago and overall it was mostly smooth. The few times I had some chucking it was very limited time wise. All in all I would have no problem doing a cross country trip with the way it tows. If I was full timing or doing 6-8000 miles a year I would probably look into a pin box that eliminates any up and down as well as front to back. For our 4000+ miles a year I'm pretty happy.

FWIW I tried towing it as it's set up with 70psi and 80psi in the rears. I found that 80psi was the better of the two.

Try a Demco GlideRide pin box: http://demco-products.com/rv-towing-products/glide-ride/

We have F350 SRW with Hensley TS3 air bag 5th wheel hitch. We have experienced ZERO chucking with this hitch. Aaron at Hensley could answer any question you have about this hitch. Great product and good folks to deal with. Google Hensley air ride hitch for more info. (I do not work for them or have stock in their company) Safe travels to you.

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