[jlb27537]

Got 1,000 miles + on the truck now. The fact the front spring pad picked up the overload spring caused the truck to not squat as much and took the bouncing out of it.

A huge improvement in the ride quality. Empty is no change.

This whole issue is that Ram has the overload spring pads at 2 different levels. Unloaded, the rear pad is about 2" above the overload spring and the front pad is almost 4" above the overload spring. So the truck has to squat 2" to get to the first pad. By putting a 3" bumper on the front pad, it now squats 1" and then picks up a pad and then comes down a second inch and picks up the rear.

I have about 3,200 lbs of pin weight, and just riding on one spring pad created the bounce effect that putting the long bumper on the front pad stopped. I was down on both front and rear pads this trip.

Truck is 100% stock, bought new, about 17K miles on it now.

Jim