This afternoon we were talking to another full-timer who asked if we had a "steering shock" and did we have a level or tension bar suspension rod under our truck. He said he lerned about it from someone he met back when he was selling travel trailers. The man told him he used to do testing of trucks and rigs under all types of situations to see if the weight and balance was correct and what happened at various speeds if certain things happened. He said they did a test where one of the front tires on the pickup blew out (he had a way to make it happen) to see at what speed the truck and trailer would go into a rollover. It did it at about 45 miles per hour. (Truck was mechanically driven, no human behind the wheel.) But if the truck had the "steering shock" the driver could bring it under sontrol without it all rolling. (That is when the human was behind the wheel.) It did not stiffen or affect the day to day driving and steerring of the truck. He said Chrysler could install one if we did not have it. I have always wondered, and sometimes worried, what would happen if a front tire blew out on the truck.
I am not sure just exactly what the level or tension bar running underneath the truck is suppose to do. Has anyone ever heard of any of this or know anything about it?? I am totally in the dark.
Joseph
I am not sure just exactly what the level or tension bar running underneath the truck is suppose to do. Has anyone ever heard of any of this or know anything about it?? I am totally in the dark.
Joseph