For those of you on HD chassis, how do you soften up the ride off-road besides airing down? I'm talking about Suburbans, F250/F350 type vehicles.
On our recent OB trail run we had a couple of members that suffered from a really harsh ride on the rocky trail and I was at a loss when trying to figure out how to make their families more comfortable.
My thoughts:
1. Air down more. With strong off-road tires and slow speed mild terrain 15psi should be ok.
2. Disconnect the front sway bar.
3. Buy better shocks with adjustable compression and better springs with a rate that matches your use.
I definitely could have air down more. When we first air down, I went from about 50psi to 40psi. Probably first mistake right there. Then after camp fire talk with Mike, he recommended going down further. Next morning I went down to 28psi all around. Second mistake was air down when tires where cold. At the end of the ride psi was up around 35psi.
The roads were rocky with a lot of dips, ruts, and stuff that was hard to avoid. When there were not so many rocks, the truck performed as expected.
For shocks, the ones I have a brand spanking new. They are Pro Comp Prerunner Extreme shocks. They are not adjustable, but I never heard or felt them bottom out during the ride.
For the sway bar, I'm actually non-technical/mechanical so disconnecting would scare the heck out of me lol.
I could maybe lessen the load in the back. Half of the stuff back there was not used because our sleeping arrangement changed due to the colder weather.
I probably just need to get out there more often to improve my driving/overlanding skills. It's probably at this point, not the truck, but the driver.