2022 Toyota Tundra Coil Spring Rear Suspension Confirmed
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Leaf sprung always felt more “direct to road” than a trailing link axle ... something i appreciated when pulling a trailer. Otoh, coils will probably handle more precisely and respond faster than multi-layer leafs. Chrysler’s mono-leaf design in their minivans did a superb job of combining the best of both. Those vans towed better than they should have.
2500s have leaf springs
2014+ 4th Gen and all 5th Gen Ram 2500’s use a 5 link coil spring rear suspension. 3500’s use leaf springs.
WDHs are nice for large awkward loads like travel trailers which never have enough tongue weight, or if they did have enough tongue weight, it would far exceed the tongue rating of the truck. If you need a WDH, you don't have a big enough truck. We are definitely pushing the limits with travel trailers.
This just popped up in a FB group from yesterday. Someone managed to bend their receiver with a WD hitch on their truck! They do apply a torsional load on the hitch. This person probably had it adjusted too far, but it's really a bandaid for not having enough truck for what you're hauling.
While I understand the principle behind WDHs, how well do they handle roads with alot of up and down bends like hills or valleys where you risk high or low centering the vehicle + trailer? Wouldn't that potentially cause issues like the above of bending and breaking thing?
Not enough tongue weight? Seems like they had too much, and cranking on the bars so as to move weight forward was done to a very high level here. Like they had the ball height set too low and tried to use the bars to compensate. [Note, I've never set up a system, so I could be wrong.] Although that much bending makes me think overloading & hitting a bump at speed may have been involved, it's not like these systems are designed only for static load with no room for margin.
All this picture shows is that somebody didn't read the instructions on how to use a WD hitch. And no they don't make up for short comings of trucks-they simply make sure you have enough weight on the front axle-and they prevent sway. No matter how big of a truck you have-if you are towing with only the ball hitch-you are much more likely to be involved in a "sway event". It's physics.
Man someone must have really wailed on those spring bars eh?
our 19’ TT pulls nicely just on the ball, but i still have the WDH we used with it on our last (smaller) truck. They pull nicer with the WDH and steering bar, thats for sure.
i hated cranking down on those bars though. The ideal setting to balance the last truck/trailer combo always had some groaning back there which had a very different character than the creaking. I often settled for creaking, not liking the groaning.
our 19’ TT pulls nicely just on the ball, but i still have the WDH we used with it on our last (smaller) truck. They pull nicer with the WDH and steering bar, thats for sure.
i hated cranking down on those bars though. The ideal setting to balance the last truck/trailer combo always had some groaning back there which had a very different character than the creaking. I often settled for creaking, not liking the groaning.
I have towed a total of 50,000 miles. You can't break a WD hitch on a normal road. I am in Salt Lake City. No shortage of curves, mountain roads, and 8,000 foot high mountain passes-when one leaves town.
The creaking are the bars doing their job.
I think they hit the adjustable draw bar on a speed bump or something similar. I have had six travel trailers all towed with one variety of WDH or other. I don’t think over adjusting would cause this unless there was existing damage to one component or another.
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