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07-15-2021, 04:36 PM
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Your Favorite Brands for Shock Absorbers & Airbags
Howdy Y'all.
Let's say you went to a Dealership to get your DP (40-45 feet) Serviced. You are the 100 Thousandth customer and the Dealership Says you WON A set of BRAND NEW Shock Absorbers and Air Bags (part of the air suspension) of YOUR CHOOSING. Any Brand you want (Even the ones used by Featherlite, Liberty, Millenium, Newell or Prevost, if that's your preference), installed for free. Which ones would you choose?
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07-15-2021, 05:20 PM
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Most will say Koni and Firestone bags, never heard anyone say they were unhappy or overjoyed with any brand of bags.
I might take special made/developed Bilstein's from Source Engineering for my Monaco Signature.
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07-15-2021, 06:06 PM
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Koni and Firestone
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07-15-2021, 10:30 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Argosy
Koni and Firestone
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Yep
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07-18-2021, 08:29 AM
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Wow, No one likes RoadKing?
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07-18-2021, 10:48 PM
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Why are bilstein not liked, they used to be beloved by many, even off road enthusiast, who required very controlled compression and rebound dampenin.
But shocks can and maybe should be quite sophisticated, many things should be involved, pre-compression, both compression and rebound valving giving dynamic amounts of dampening, both amount and speed of compress/release, etc.
in off road and racing much more tuning is available, but my impression is that mh shocks are very simple, even less so sophisticated than most autos.
of course EACH specific mh would need tuning of shocks for best performance, this is likely why besides length and maybe weight capacity, shocks are very much NOT optimized ?
but personally if shocks were 'smart' especially side to side, then all those thousands of dollars for all the anti-sway and such would not be needed.
i guess no one wants a safe controlled ride for their newly manufactured mh ??
Thanks ?????
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07-19-2021, 02:39 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SmilingSam
Why are bilstein not liked, they used to be beloved by many, even off road enthusiast, who required very controlled compression and rebound dampenin.
But shocks can and maybe should be quite sophisticated, many things should be involved, pre-compression, both compression and rebound valving giving dynamic amounts of dampening, both amount and speed of compress/release, etc.
in off road and racing much more tuning is available, but my impression is that mh shocks are very simple, even less so sophisticated than most autos.
of course EACH specific mh would need tuning of shocks for best performance, this is likely why besides length and maybe weight capacity, shocks are very much NOT optimized ?
but personally if shocks were 'smart' especially side to side, then all those thousands of dollars for all the anti-sway and such would not be needed.
i guess no one wants a safe controlled ride for their newly manufactured mh ??
Thanks ?????
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So I gather you like Bilsteins. Nice. What about Air Bags? Good year, Firestone or anything else?
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07-19-2021, 05:29 PM
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Koni and Firestone.
I believe Firestone invented the air spring (air bag). They are actually more complicated then they look and Firestone has proprietary knowledge.
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