Smoother Ride In Pickup. Shock Absorbers?

[SwissMate78]

has anyone fitted any of these to their pickup?

i wonder if it would make a big difference to comfort?

[BSJ]

What! All cars and pick-ups have shockers. Are you talking bout after-market shockers?

[SwissMate78]

Yeah, I figured there would be something aftermarket available to smoothen the ride.

There are various 4x4 shocks available, nitro shocks etc. or perhaps another mod?

[Spoonman]

Pull a leaf from the rear springs, will smoothen ride but you loose carrying capacity. Ive had a full set of nolathane bushes fitted to my Ranger it made a huge difference. not so much to ride quality but in responsiveness.

[transam]

Pull a leaf from the rear springs, will smoothen ride but you loose carrying capacity. Ive had a full set of nolathane bushes fitted to my Ranger it made a huge difference. not so much to ride quality but in responsiveness.

Yeh, shocks just dampen things, springs are your ride quality, but remember a truck is a truck.

[Pineapplesamui]

Just add load...

Few bags of cement takes the spring out of it..

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[arthurwait]

Better dampers will improve the control of the springs, but as long as they are better dampers and do what they say on the tin not just claim to be better. Loads of rubbish out there. But...

As others have said it's still always going to be a truck. A front heavy truck with cheap poorly located leaf springs, that is designed to carry varying loads.

If you want really want a decent ride then you have to treat it as a car and scrap the leaf springs and link the rear axle instead together with coil springs with better dampers and as someone said decent bushes should help as well.

If you treat it as a truck with heavy loads and unloaded the upgraded dampers won't be suited to both. It will just be another compremise just a more expensive one.

Edit: Preferably scrap the leaf springs. Also I don't know the legalities of doing that here.

[SwissMate78]

hmmm okay sounds complicated, especially trying to explain that in english to a thai mechanic when I don't understand it properly myself.

[Spoonman]

Exo 4x4 do coil conversions.

http://www.exo4x4.com

[BSJ]

Air suspension maybe a good alternative (not to expensive) to the standard set up. I see a few slammed cars around Pattaya so someone is doing them in LOS.

[SwissMate78]

What is LOS?

[theslime]

What is LOS?

Land of Sharks Land of Swindles,Land of Smiles. Take your pick.