How do I make the suspension softer (like a Cadillac)?

[Whammy Bar]

I've put some weight in the back of this things and it rides like an absolute dream. Anyone have a link to a resource that would show me how to calc the spring rate to make it ride like it has 2000lbs in the bed all the time?

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[RickLightning]

2,000 pounds? That's a bit over the payload, no?

 

[F150ROD]

The truck already rides like a Cadillac.

 

[TomB985]

I think that would be tough. My dad’s 2023 ICE F150 has a 6,600 lb GVWR, which is 2,000 lbs under mine. I imagine you could swap coil springs, but there would probably be running close to the bump stops because of the softer springs.

Might be worth a try if it’s that important to you, though.

 

[Shawnson]

I've put some weight in the back of this things and it rides like an absolute dream. Anyone have a link to a resource that would show me how to calc the spring rate to make it ride like it has 2000lbs in the bed all the time?

So it rides like it’s got 4000lbs when it’s loaded? ?

 

[wilmerfjohnson]

Check your tire pressure... make sure the tires are not overinflated. If you want a cushy ride with an unladen bed, drop the rear tire pressure 1 or 2 PSI. Then, when you need to haul 2000# of firewood, you can reinflate the tires. Much easier/cheaper/faster than changing springs.

OR - make yourself up a ballast. FInd a local steel fab shop, have them cut you a piece of 1" road plate that will fit in the bed. Prob cost you $1500-ish, (similar to a spring swap) and you can remove it as needed.

 

[Texas Dan]

Maybe a plastic water tank would work. You can buy 100 gallon plastic water tank from Home Depot and strap it down to the bed. Then you could dump the water wherever you needed the extra payload or when you didn’t care about the smoother ride, like when your wife is not in the truck.

 

[K6CCC]

If you wanted a Cadillac ride, why did you buy a truck?

 

[Texas Dan]

If you wanted a Cadillac ride, why did you buy a truck?

Who says I want a Cadillac ride? But if a smoother ride would tone down my wife’s complaining, that would be a plus.

 

[K6CCC]

Who says I want a Cadillac ride?

You didn't - the original poster did.

 

[Landscaper]

You didn't - the original poster did.

3 years ago…

 

[bc1]

I know some people who would like to make their wife ride in back. Not only would it ride like a Cadillac, it will ride and drive like a dream!!!

Around here we have a lot of Amish in Yoder. The rubber tire Amish who drive tractors mostly pull trailers with the wife and kids in back. Some places have special parking for the Amish either with their horse and buggy or their tractor and trailers. That said I saw a new sect of Amish last year. Two in one day. A guy on a tractor with his wife sitting next to him with her arm around him driving to the farm store in Hutchinson. I'm guessing the Tractor-trailer sect of Amish have excommunicated them so they have started their own church.

The Amish hold church as a group in peoples homes/farms. If someone breaks the rules then they get excommunicated. The excommunicated ones form their own church group, etc. That's how the rubber tire tractor group moved away from the tractor group who only used steel lugged wheels. Of course that group of tractor drivers were excommunicated from the horse plow group who have all died off by now. Even now the rubber tire group don't have electric power except for well pumps if they can't do it with propane. Their use of phones is technically only a message phone but some of them are cheating a little. Some groups have a phone in central location that they all can use and messages can be left. The mennonites are probably Amish light to normal except the mennonite Holdermans are the same as Amish. So their is your Amish lesson of the day as far as I know. Someone else may have more intimate knowledge and can correct me.

Talked to a horse vet in Hutchinson who was retiring and I said he probably got a lot of business from the Amish. He said no and when one of their horses or mules couldn't pull a buggy or plow any more you never saw it again cause they did their own cures and they didn't let any of them die of old age out in the pasture. They just got buried out in the pasture. I went to a few farm auctions down in that area and always looked at their horses and buggies. All the horses were young so horse life with the Amish is short. Sorry to side track this thread.

 

[DudeTheObscure]

My Lightning rides better than my wife's Lyriq.

 

[Firn]

Why did we get a lesson on Amish politics? Does anyone know?

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[chriserx]

Why did we get a less on Amish politics? Does anyone know?

6 degrees of kevin bacon?
cadillac ride -> floaty drive -> horse drawn carriage -> amish drive them -> amish eschew electronics/technology -> lightning is evil to the amish

Long story short, the amish are the reason the lightning is cancelled.

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