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Front end sag after one-ton install? [message #353672]

Fri, 10 April 2020 15:35

Joe Weir

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Back from lurking. Wicked mistress still not having adventures, but more out of my schedule, and not any real needs. Anyway, a little something to ponder during the lockdown:

There is a thread on one of the facebook groups discussing a run of even stouter torsion bars to compensate for the wider track of the One ton Conversion.

Gentleman claims that with his new one ton install, and his stock pork chops maxed out, the front end of his 26' is still too low per spec. He has published calculations that show the stock bar, and even the Huber bars to be inadequate for the loading.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15U-r7x6edQBsO9Rdexyhc5LSPa9v2jkp/view?fbclid=IwAR0B9XxlNmq2_iTxJF85cltXR2adz77mxeHfiMKgSHkB4CT3QPYS0yk_QCI

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15U-r7x6edQBsO9Rdexyhc5LSPa9v2jkp/view?fbclid=IwAR0B9XxlNmq2_iTxJF85cltXR2adz77mxeHfiMKgSHkB4CT3QPYS0yk_QCI

There was another person who volunteered they had the same sagging issue after installing a one ton on their 23.

The gentleman is preparing to do a run of even thicker bars - what a great country.

My question to the hive:

Has anyone heard of, or experienced, this issue with the one ton? I don't remember seeing any discussion, and a forum search doesn't show any either.

It seems to me that if the issue is the 4" increase in arm length, wouldn't this issue have come up with anyone who has put on wheel spacers? Those have been around forever. Not discounting the math (I am not qualified), just the suddenness, or selectivity, of the problem. Why not everyone? Why now?

Are stock bars finally getting to the age where they will just not tolerate this foolishness? If the stock bars are not up to the task, I would think this would have been an issue from the start. Not that the option to be able to purchase even thicker bars is a bad thing, just that my troubleshooting spideysense is telling me it would have to be something else wrong in the suspension, or torsion bar mounting.

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76 Birchaven - "Wicked Mistress" - New engine, trans, alum radiator, brakes, Sully airbags, fuel lines, seats, adult beverage center... those Coachmen guys were really thinking about us second hand owners by including that beverage center... Columbia, SC.

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		Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Joe Weir on Fri, 10 April 2020 15:35
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Hal StClair on Fri, 10 April 2020 16:39
		Re: [GMCnet] Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Ken Henderson on Fri, 10 April 2020 18:34
		Re: [GMCnet] Front end sag after one-ton install? By: JohnS on Fri, 10 April 2020 19:40
		Re: [GMCnet] Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Richard RV on Fri, 10 April 2020 20:01
		Re: [GMCnet] Front end sag after one-ton install? By: James Hupy on Sat, 11 April 2020 09:59
		Re: [GMCnet] Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Brian Waddell on Sat, 11 April 2020 15:47
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Richard RV on Fri, 10 April 2020 19:13
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Hal StClair on Fri, 10 April 2020 19:48
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Joe Weir on Fri, 10 April 2020 21:30
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Hal StClair on Fri, 10 April 2020 22:13
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Joe Weir on Sat, 11 April 2020 09:19
		Re: [GMCnet] Front end sag after one-ton install? By: jimk on Sat, 11 April 2020 09:38
		Re: [GMCnet] Front end sag after one-ton install? By: jimk on Sat, 11 April 2020 09:53
		Re: [GMCnet] Front end sag after one-ton install? By: James Hupy on Sat, 11 April 2020 09:59
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Richard RV on Fri, 10 April 2020 23:08
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Joe Weir on Sat, 11 April 2020 09:15
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: 74_Coach on Sat, 11 April 2020 12:00
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Richard RV on Sat, 11 April 2020 12:58
		Re: [GMCnet] Front end sag after one-ton install? By: James Hupy on Sat, 11 April 2020 13:00
		Re: [GMCnet] Front end sag after one-ton install? By: sgltrac on Sat, 11 April 2020 13:18
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: RF_Burns on Sat, 11 April 2020 07:42
		Re: [GMCnet] Front end sag after one-ton install? By: bdub on Sat, 11 April 2020 09:06
		Re: [GMCnet] Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Brian Waddell on Sat, 11 April 2020 15:27
		Re: [GMCnet] Front end sag after one-ton install? By: James Hupy on Sat, 11 April 2020 15:49
		Re: [GMCnet] Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Ken Henderson on Sat, 11 April 2020 16:11
		Re: [GMCnet] Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Joe Weir on Sun, 12 April 2020 18:11
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: RF_Burns on Sat, 11 April 2020 10:27
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Robert Abney on Sat, 11 April 2020 14:33
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Richard RV on Mon, 13 April 2020 00:08
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Joe Weir on Mon, 13 April 2020 09:35
		Re: [GMCnet] Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Ken Henderson on Mon, 13 April 2020 10:14
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Robert Abney on Mon, 13 April 2020 14:23
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Joe Weir on Mon, 13 April 2020 15:29
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Matt Colie on Mon, 13 April 2020 17:40
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: bwevers on Mon, 13 April 2020 21:43
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Robert Abney on Tue, 14 April 2020 17:14
		Re: [GMCnet] Front end sag after one-ton install? By: James Hupy on Tue, 14 April 2020 17:33
		Re: [GMCnet] Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Robert Abney on Tue, 14 April 2020 18:13
		Re: [GMCnet] Front end sag after one-ton install? By: James Hupy on Tue, 14 April 2020 18:45
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: Robert Abney on Mon, 13 April 2020 22:58
		Re: Front end sag after one-ton install? By: bwevers on Tue, 14 April 2020 20:33

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