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Setting ride height [message #270305]

Sat, 24 January 2015 13:02

kerry pinkerton

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Lots of good discussion in that thread but to keep from hijacking it further, I thought I'd start a new one.

Keep in mind that I've never weighted my coach and don't really know what I'm talking about... Embarassed

It seems to me, that if the rear end is BLOCKED to spec and THEN the front end adjusted it would be weight independent. The automatic level adjusters are going to take the rear back to spec IF THE AUTO LEVEL SYSTEM IS WORKING CORRECTLY. The auto level system doesn't care about weight. It is going to adjust air pressure until it's at the set height. Period.

The torsion bars do care about the weight but the adjustment/drive/measure process takes that into consideration.

Am I missing something?

Chuck, regarding your cracked windshields while the coach is sitting and the distorted openings. I find it difficult to imagine that much movement in the structure without paint cracking and big gaps opening up. I'd think the body mounts might be off or prior collision damage. These things are really STIFF. I've jacked mine several times and had the other side front wheel come off the ground almost as soon as the side I was jacking did. I normally jack where the subframe slips into the chassis rails.

Kerry Pinkerton - North Alabama Had 5 over the years. Currently have a '06 Fleetwood Discovery 39L

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Re: Setting ride height [message #270315 is a reply to message #270305]

Sat, 24 January 2015 15:48

hal kading

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Kerry,

The only thing obvious on mine was the bottom center of the windshield opening was displaced from the top center and the glass didn't fit right. The rubber gasket was distorted upper right side and particularly on the lower left at the point of the smallest radius. Probably because the shop installed the right glass first. There is a lot of force in those torsion bars and the body is quite flexible.

I agree with Ken Burton on the leveling. The weight, side to side, on the front is important.

Hal Kading 78 Buskirk Stretch Las Cruces NM

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