Chassis Shimmy and Flex? Really?

[RIKU]

What's deavers do for on road driving? I would be interested. Few things:

1. I have a leveling Kit that I love
2. I don't want to reduce my clearance as I rub as is now

Not a big offroad guy so what would deavers do for me?

 

[pirate air]

Good video about frame strength from Ford. It's not a Raptor chassis, but close. It will also show you what a Tundra frame is all about lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRfE_XAk2mE

The Super cab will rely on the frame to hold rigidity more than any other cab configuration because of the large door openings with no B pillar. And at the same time, the chassis will flex (being the same length) with a scab configuration because the chassis is doing more work holding the truck rigid, then it would with a reg/crew cab config. The scab is the worst at holding rigidity. The truck as a whole will not be as rigid. Think thats what the author was getting at. I noticed flex the first time I took it down down a bumpy road at speed. But its not bad when you consider what other trucks like the tundra (which I think by far has the worst frame strength wise) feels like. You can get the cab of a tundra to contact the bed (dent the CRAP out of) with little effort. That is frame flex! My Raptor's bed has just barely kissed my cab, leaving a very small paint scuff. The deavers don't solve frame flex, they give sooner/softer and are much more active, which takes more load off of the frame. So instead of the frame working/flexing, the springs are doing more working/flexing then what the stock springs would be doing in the same conditions. The frame rigidity never changed.

I'm interested in buying deavers, so put me down for group buy please.

 

[bstoner59]

Talked to Deaver not going to be able to do the group buy because of their distributors...dont want to undercut the distributors, which I totally understand. Maybe can go to a distributor like SDHQ and see if they can work a deal.

 

[Xjrguy]

Sounds like the reviewer didn't have the rear doors closed properly or hard enough.

 

[Nv Guy]

I really have to question the reviewer's comments as a whole. He needs to understand that this is a truck, not a Sabaru WRX or Mitsu EVO. Given the parameters that Ford had to work with (production, cost), they produced a great vehicle. I havent noticed any chassis flex. It has always gone in the direction that I intended it to without any wallowy- mushy feelings.
In regard to him wanting bigger brakes, this isnt a road racer so screaming from corner to corner on pavement is not what it was engineered to do. That is what Ford builds the Mustang for.