Greyghost
San Tan Valley, AZ
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Brief history of our MH. Bought it used in 2005 and immediately had to replace the shocks due to porpoising. Under warranty Workhorse replaced the Bilstiens with Monroe Gas Magnums. 45K miles later the Monroes are worn out and had them replaced with Koni FSDs (lifetime warranty) and replaced the 8 year old XRVs with new XRVs.
We just finished traveling from Queen Creek AZ to Nappannee IN and the change in the ride was well worth the cost of the Koni's. Less shaking and rattles. The coach handles better on curves and we just don't feel all of the bumps and expansion joints in the concrete hiways.
Our trip from AZ was 60 to 36 to 117 to I40 to 44 to I70 from St Louis to Indy. Rant On - Good to great roads all the way to the Indiana border and then we thought we had been transported to Interstate 10 in Los Angeles. I70 in Indiana is as bad as anything in CA. Rant - Off.
Pat & Roger Fisher
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427435
Rochester, Mn
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Thanks. Although there are a few detractors of these shocks, your experience matches mine and most others that have tried them.
Mark
2000 Itasca Suncruiser 35U on a Ford chassis, 65,000 miles
2003 Ford Explorer toad with US Gear brakes,
Ready Brute tow bar, and Demco base plate.
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LVJ58
Las Vegas, Nevada
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Happy to hear the FSD's provided a better ride and handling on your coach. Unfortunately, the FSD's didn't work as well for others who installed them on their coaches.
Safe Travels.....
Jim & Sherry Seward
Las Vegas, NV
2000 Residency 3790 V-10 w/tags & Banks System
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Greyghost
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Could be a chassis issue mine is a Workhorse, maybe they don't work as well on the Ford chassis.
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jauguston
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I put them on our last coach a 31' Gulfstream Sun Voyager DP. It had Bilsteins from the factory on a Spartan chassis.26,000 miles and it porposed really bad. FSD's stopped it completely. Great shocks.
Jim
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LVJ58
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Greyghost wrote:Could be a chassis issue mine is a Workhorse, maybe they don't work as well on the Ford chassis.
We have the FSD's on just the front suspension of our F53 chassis and they worked great in providing a more comfortable ride, however there were others who installed them on their F53 chassis and were extremely disappointed with the results.
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wolfe10
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LVJ58 wrote:Greyghost wrote:Could be a chassis issue mine is a Workhorse, maybe they don't work as well on the Ford chassis.
We have the FSD's on just the front suspension of our F53 chassis and they worked great in providing a more comfortable ride, however there were others who installed them on their F53 chassis and were extremely disappointed with the results.
And that is perfectly reasonable. No shock is a silver bullet. If the springs are underloaded, shocks will be a lot less effective than if the springs are properly loaded. One could blame the shocks, but that's not really the cause in many cases. That is why you will see legitimate good and bad posts on exactly the same shock, same chassis.
Brett Wolfe
1993 Foretravel 36' U-240
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Greyghost
San Tan Valley, AZ
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As a follow on to this topic I plan on having the coach re-weighed. It feels like I'll have to drop about 5-10 lbs of pressure on the front tires. I'm having to do some minor corrections more frequently than I have in the past.
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