Suspension options

[MotionMan]

Air bags are by far the best. You can adjust them for any load, they help sway, they are seamless deflated, are under a truck of mine with 300,000 miles and have never failed. Don't get something that just limits travel, it's an abrupt stop and you will feel it. In my life I have put over 500,000 miles on bagged trucks.there is no better option for the money. About $350.

[wrc7732]

Air bags are by far the best. You can adjust them for any load, they help sway, they are seamless deflated, are under a truck of mine with 300,000 miles and have never failed. Don't get something that just limits travel, it's an abrupt stop and you will feel it. In my life I have put over 500,000 miles on bagged trucks.there is no better option for the money. About $350.

X2. I had the Firestone ride rights on my 1500, and they were great.

 

 

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[Cowpie]

Haven't used them but looking at them, the Sumo Springs don't have the gap of Timbren version so they ride on the axle all the time and that should avoid the jolt factor. But install is same as with the Timbren with the same install and forget kind of methodology.

 

https://www.supersprings.com/products/sumosprings

[sdeeter19555]

A few things - I think you are missing a number in your original post. At only 1600 pounds, it won't squat at all.

 

Are you using a weight distribution hitch?

 

I'm towing around 9,000 pounds and only have a little squat with my WD hitch.

Slide in campers are a little difference than pin or hitch weight.

 

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[sdeeter19555]

Having owned a slide in camper, Firestone Ride-Rites, and Timbrens...here are my thoughts.

 

I used Firestone Ride-Rites with my slide in to minimize tick-tock (the constant slow, side-to-side rocking while driving), and to level the ride (dropped me about 1.5"s). I have since long sold that setup and have Timbrens in this truck.

 

If I were to do this for a slide in camper, it would be airbags. Reasons would be airbags are less jarring than Timbrens and you can level the load (measure ground to top of wheel well and level to that after loaded). The main thing with airbags in this situation is that they need to be separate fills or they will amplify side to side rocking. You can also deflate the bags and get near to a OE ride when empty...

 

Timbrens would work, but they have a much rougher ride when loaded than airbags (would this be harder on the camper?). Plus, I will echo the setiments of the prior post, they do cause extremely rough roads to be rougher because they only allow about an inch of motion before contacting the axle. I daily drive 100 miles a day with a 2500hd and Timbrens, it is noticeable but liveable, and not bad enough to take them out. The only major benefit of Timbrens is they are set and forget, and almost fail proof (no moving parts, no lines or bags susceptible to road debris, although I put a lot of miles on my airbag setup without a single problem).

 

I got my Timbrens for $160 shipped from TruckSpring, and that was my deciding factor over $400+ airbags this go around.

 

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