Underweight! EMPTY!!!

Whiz,

I waited and waited until Koni finally offered an FSD shock for the Ford E450 motorhome chassis. I even called them to encourage getting it to market.

The trouble with any other shock model is - what stiffness do you go with? Soft means poor handling. Stiff means an even worse than stock ride in the rear. The FSD shock acts both ways as needed, so I had two installed in the rear a couple of years ago ... much better now in all situations, but they're a bit pricey to buy.

pnichols,

The very first thing I did was remove the OEM shocks and replace them with Bilsteins.

The Minnie had 38K on it at the time.

BIG improvement!!!

Whiz

whiz,

I looks like you're the opposite of this thread's title - you're Underweight FULL!

We have an ~24 foot Itasca on an E450 chassis that is REALLY underweight at any fullness we can load it up to. We're around 11,800 - 12,000 fully loaded, but the chassis can take up to 14,050 lbs.. That's exactly what we wanted when we bought it -> chassis overkill.

Enjoy you great smooth ride! It took several years before we finally were able to eliminate a lot of the sting out of the rear of our rig using specific shock absorbers that weren't even available for the Ford E350/E450 chassis until many years after we had bought our Class C.

It looks like the rear springs are sagging a bit but I probably wont mess with them.

E-series rear springs normally sit flat to inverted.