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Freind of mine just bought 04 dually and after hooking up a 7500# gooseneck horse trailer the truck rides extremely rough. Almost unbearable. The truck with trailer just barely hits overloads and the trailer bouncing around makes for a horrible ride. He is getting ready to head back east for summer (snow bird) and wants his Ford back cuz it rode better. He is not a happy camper. Any ideas on how to soften the ride? Thanks for any help.

 

used to haul a 6 horse with a 2001 dually and the ride got better with the trailer instead of worse. any ideas where (location on bed) they installed the hitch?

 

Centered over axle.
Mine rides better with either my stock or living quarters trailer.
I drove it last night and the trailer does not seem to have enough tongue weight to soften the ride. I offered to him to try and put a couple drums of water in bed of truck and try it again.

 

If he has the scratch get an air ride. Smooth as glass..

 

My 3 horse trailer does this also. The overloads are very stiff. If you do not load it enough to flex them sufficiently, you get a stiff ride over bumps. I also get some banging when it settles back on the overloads. When I get enough money, I will be installing a keldermann 2 stage air ride to eliminate the overload spring problem.

 

There were some guys on one of the other diesel forum sites talking about this same problem. It seems like some of the gooseneck trailers don't have enough weight to fully engage the overload spring on the 3G 3500s. If I remember right, they were solving some of it by putting larger rubber snubbers on the overload spring so that it engages earlier and with less weight. You might try searching the TDR or Dieselram.com for more information.

 

I, just this afternoon, installed 2.5" poly urethane stoppers from suspension-energy and they to have taken the bounce down quite a bit. When empty not a problem and when loaded they engage the helpers immediately. Around $68 from local trick trucks shop.

 

Another option is to add a set of Ride Rite air bags and put alittle air in them to help with the ride. You could also put on a set of Tembrens instead

 

Thanks for the replys, I will let my freind know and he can decide from there.