My wife and I were shopping and jumped on the first 4WC we could find that would fit my truck. 2014 Hawk, great price, everything works and runs great.
My truck is a Ram 1500 with the 5'8" bed. I will say I know a 3/4 ton would solve all issues, but that is not in the budget at this time, maybe end of summer. (We also have an infant which spurred the camper buy, tent camping wasnt an option.)
My truck has bilstein 5100 struts, and heavy duty coils in the rear. I have a 1.25 inch rake unloaded. Under load the front end was 1 5/8" higher.
I ordered Timbren severe service with an extra 1" spacer. With the camper loaded the sway is gone. The new issue is a rythmic bouncing going over common road humps and dips. Its not horrible and goes away fast but I feel it should not be there. Also the timbrens have a 1.25inch gap unloaded, loaded the rear is still down 3/8 to 1/2 from the front. (Working with timbren if a 1/2 spacer will fix this to level or above)
I am hoping to see what solutions people will have, I am about to load the camper back up and throw a gopro under and make sure it isnt the timbren loosing contact and regaining it that is causing the bounce.
Things I am considering
- New Shocks, prob need this anyway as these are stock and have 55k miles.
- Adding that 1/2 inch spacer so I am level or raked again and hoping it helps.
- Sending timbrens back and getting the timber grove airbags, I just do not know if I would have the bounce with these as well.
Things I have done.
- Coil-Rite with stock coils, they did not work at all. Coil-Rite does not work with aftermarket springs either, found this out the hard way. So I have purchased Coil-Rites(Returned thankfully), Coils, Timbrens and it is all a guessing game still.
Any advice is greatly appreciated. I am also close to or below payload, have been to cat scale multiple times.
My truck is a Ram 1500 with the 5'8" bed. I will say I know a 3/4 ton would solve all issues, but that is not in the budget at this time, maybe end of summer. (We also have an infant which spurred the camper buy, tent camping wasnt an option.)
My truck has bilstein 5100 struts, and heavy duty coils in the rear. I have a 1.25 inch rake unloaded. Under load the front end was 1 5/8" higher.
I ordered Timbren severe service with an extra 1" spacer. With the camper loaded the sway is gone. The new issue is a rythmic bouncing going over common road humps and dips. Its not horrible and goes away fast but I feel it should not be there. Also the timbrens have a 1.25inch gap unloaded, loaded the rear is still down 3/8 to 1/2 from the front. (Working with timbren if a 1/2 spacer will fix this to level or above)
I am hoping to see what solutions people will have, I am about to load the camper back up and throw a gopro under and make sure it isnt the timbren loosing contact and regaining it that is causing the bounce.
Things I am considering
- New Shocks, prob need this anyway as these are stock and have 55k miles.
- Adding that 1/2 inch spacer so I am level or raked again and hoping it helps.
- Sending timbrens back and getting the timber grove airbags, I just do not know if I would have the bounce with these as well.
Things I have done.
- Coil-Rite with stock coils, they did not work at all. Coil-Rite does not work with aftermarket springs either, found this out the hard way. So I have purchased Coil-Rites(Returned thankfully), Coils, Timbrens and it is all a guessing game still.
Any advice is greatly appreciated. I am also close to or below payload, have been to cat scale multiple times.