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Suspension Build Help For Heavy Load (Four Wheel Camper)
Hello everyone! This is my second post on the yotatech forums. I知 looking for some advice as I have a bit of a unique scenario.
I recently acquired a FWC slide-in to live out of while I知 in college. It was taken off an 80s bronco and modified to fit our trucks even with the tailgate shut.
Before I went to pick it up I already knew I壇 have to make some suspension upgrades to handle the weight as I知 already playing with fire with approx. 600-800lb of constant load. so before I got the camper I upgraded to some bilstein 5100 rear shocks and set of 1500lb helper springs as a bandaid until this summer when I have more funding and time. For now it works, but not without some slight bend in the front of my leaf springs. Within the next couple months I知 hoping to gather parts.
My truck currently has ~4inches of lift (on a block with stock springs) I知 hoping to keep the height and add a bit of rake in the rear. I知 currently looking at the possibility of rear OME heavy duty springs in combo with a 1.5in lift block to set my rear ride height to about 4inches, all wrapped up with along with a driveline spacer or more favorably an extended driveshaft.
Does anyone have any advice (that痴 not get a bigger truck) as to what I should be looking for to put in my rear suspension? Is my write up flawed? Should I just go for a dually axle/full floater? anything I should look out for or that I知 not considering?
any help would be appreciated
(photo is of my truck on the western corridor of New Mexico going into Arizona when my steering went out haha)
Thanks Again.
Carlo
Last edited by Carloxaugustine; Apr 13, 2024 at 10:40 PM.