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[ski3pin]

................................I over research everything according to my wife - except her it was a no brainer. 

 

[Mickey Bitsko]

Just installed bilstein 4600's on the rear, haven't been off road yet, that will be tomorrow...

[JHanson]

Thom, thanks for your thorough and patient argument. However, despite your efforts, I'm still having trouble with this. Consider an experiment in which you drove two vehicles straight off a curb at low speed. Both vehicles have the same unsprung weight—axles, tires, etc.—but one vehicle weighs 3,000 pounds and the other weighs 6,000 pounds. They both have the same springs (or different—I'm not sure that would matter). In essence we'd be doing a moving bumper test, watching the oscillation as each vehicle came off the curb. It sounds as though you're telling me that if both vehicles had the same shocks, they would react exactly the same—same magnitude of oscillation, same number of oscillations. And that just doesn't make sense to me. The same shock would have a more difficult time damping the oscillations of a heavier vehicle. The unsprung weight wouldn't even be a factor. What am I missing?

[Advmoto18]

It really is a matter of simple physics which Jonathan has put into excellent plain English.  Static v Dynamic loading is a well documented subject;  much has been published on the matter.  Google for pages upon pages regarding the subject.

 

I would suggest reading up on Dynamic loading (more precisely, Newton's Law regarding motion) since we are discussing our trucks/camper in motion.

Edited by Advmoto18, 20 February 2016 - 01:32 AM.