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As a corollary to these bad roads, let's assume you have to travel them. Now every rig is different but is there a "sweet spot" in terms of speed to minimize the earthquake. Anybody want to comment on the difference between traditional 5er suspensions and some of the upfits like Mor/Ryde IS over these trecherous sounding sections of the interstate? Inquiring minds want to know.
-- Edited by biggaRView on Tuesday 5th of May 2015 11:09:24 AM
We pulled the exact same trailer with and without the MOR/ryde IS.By “exact same” I mean we had MOR/ryde remove the springs on our trailer and install the IS.
Daylight and dark – before and after.BTW, I’m comparing 20,000 miles with springs before the change to the IS. We've got some 83,000 miles of IS experience now.
One thing we really noticed right away was when going over rail road tracks or roadway joints we didn’t “feel” the trailer echo the bumps with the IS. Rather dramatic IMO. Linda does not complain about things moving in the rig or fridge. She a great "packer" but we just don't have those issues.
Sherry and Jesse had the same done to their rig – took off the springs and put on the IS.I believe I am quoting her correctly when I say “Why did we wait to do this.”
IMO and experience, regardless of having any kind of shock absorber between the springs supports or not, including an air bag, if the rig has springs the system is not an independent system and simply doesn’t work as well over any kind of poor roads or good ones for that matter. It's one of those "must have's" for us and as you know we do move around a lot.
Brian - we don't have the MOR/Ryde suspension system on the trailer, but we did have the Auto Flex system installed on our truck which made a HUGE difference. Dale drove that section of I-40 when bringing the trailer back to Seattle when we were getting ready to go on the road. He said it was a constant "chucking" motion. While we hated the drive a few weeks ago on the same highway, he said it was much better this time, but it's still just a very rough patch of highway. We've also driven the same rough patches of I-5 before and after Auto Flex and noticed a very big difference.
