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Today we're going to be taking a look at the suspension upgrades available for the F-53 chassis. These upgrades are all designed to improve the drivability and the handling of your RV. The most common problem with an RV is just, as you're going down the road, uneven road surfaces, little ruts in the road, things like that can really make it a challenge to get down the road safely. Most of the time, when you get where you're going, it's time for a rest. You got to rest up a little bit after that drive, always fighting that steering wheel to maintain your lane. Some of the things that we've found here reading through customer reviews and everything is that all of these upgrades really make a significant difference. One of the first upgrades a lot of customers like to do will be what we have here.

This is a front sway bar upgrade. This one's from Roadmaster. Now the sway bar's going to eliminate what's called body roll or the side to side movement. These are typically top heavy. As you take corners, they want to lean one way or another.

That can be either from cornering, uneven road surfaces. If you hit a little dip, it can transfer some motion into the coach. Then also when big trucks we're to pass you. That wind will cause you to push side to side. A stiff wind will cause that as well. Now the sway bars, these are available for the front that we have here.

We'll show you the rear in just a minute. They basically make a connection between the axle of the coach; that's the anchor point here and here. It's going to come up and it connects to the frame. As the RV starts to lean, that side is going to go down. As it goes down, it pushes down on this sway bar.

That transfers all the way across and it's going to pull down on the other side. It's going to try to counteract that. Another really good upgrade for the body roll, all of those same symptoms, to help get rid of that, are what they call sumo springs. Now these springs are also going to attach from the top of the axle up to the frame. Now these are really good about softening the ride of the coach. When you're hitting those hard bumps, this would be the one advantage that these would have over the sway bar, is that they actually cushion your ride a little bit. They're going to act a lot in the same fashion. As the RV we're to roll over to this side, it wants to compress this area. Having this resistance here is going to limit the amount of compression that can come down. The harder you turn, the more it's going to come down. They get gradually stiffer as that happens. Adversely, on the other side, in that same situation, as that side starts to go down, this side wants to go up and this wants to pull that frame rail back down. It wants to get back to its original position. It's a really great way to help eliminate some of that body roll and also smooth out the ride a little bit in the coach. Now also with the heavy tires that we have on RVs, a lot of times if you get uneven road surfaces to where you've got a little bit of a lip there, your tire wants to follow along with that, what they call rut tracking or the grooves that are sometimes not very consistent in the road. The tire will get into that and it will push the RV side to side. This can also be affected with some of the body roll with passing vehicles or with uneven pavement. You can have a little bit of a situation there where your steering wheel wants to wander side to side. That's where a steering stabilizer will come into play. Now your steering stabilizer is designed to help absorb any shock that we might get from the steering wheel. Especially in a blow-out situation, if this tire we're to blow out, it's going to immediately try to turn that way. We've got a nice heavy duty shock absorber here that helps to lessen how much that's going to move. In addition to that, we've got a nice heavy duty coil spring here. Now the way it's sitting right now, you can see it's pretty relaxed. We don't have any tension on it at all. If we we're to hit a rut with this tire and it wants to pull that way, it's going to stretch that spring out. That spring's going to try to pull it back and try to get it right back to the center location. Same way if it we're to go the other way and that spring compresses, that spring wants to fight to get us back. Now it's going to connect between your tie rod and the axle. All the time we're heading dow