How Much Bounce From Your Cabover?
Hello, How much bounce, movement up & down from your Cabover, 1 inch- 2inch?, as you drive along? Does balance, centre of gravity have an effect? Weight in Cabover effect on movement? How ...
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The short bed Dodge has little frame twist or deflection making the movement of the strut piston very small.
Jefe has it dead on. Frame flex (specifically: deflection and torsional twisting) is/are probably the main cause/causes of a camper cab-over dynamically approaching the truck cab. The longer the truck bed and the longer the cab-over = the greater potential for this to happen.
To a lesser extent (assuming your rear tie-downs are adjusted correctly): the material between your steel truck bed deck and the underside of the camper will contribute (unless you sit your camper on a queen-size foam mattress, or your cab-over is waggin' like a dog's tail :B )
Contemplating more: each truck manufacturer's *frame* would offer differing deflection and torsional flexing characteristics, and this would vary widely with payload COG...
Lots of unknowns; lots of experimenting needs to be done...hmmmm?
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