Roadmaster Trailer Suspension Parts - RM-2460-3

Improve your towing experience with this shock absorbing upgrade kit for leaf spring trailer suspensions. Heavy-duty shocks reduce trailer bounce, chucking, and porpoising. Adjustable mounting brackets and hardware included. Fits 3" axles.

Features:

• Heavy-duty gas shocks absorb road vibration to provide a more comfortable towing experience
  • Nitrogen-charged shock absorbers help to eliminate trailer bouncing, chucking, and porpoising
• Adjustable mounting brackets allow the shocks to be positioned nearly vertically
  • Limits up-and-down motion of trailer on both compression and rebound
• Shocks sit at an outward, 15-degree angle
  • Helps to control trailer sway by limiting lateral movement
  • Improves front-to-back, side-to-side, and up-and-down movement of your trailer
• Bolt-on installation
  • Included tie plates with extension pieces replace your existing U-bolt plates
  • Upper brackets mount on trailer frame with included hardware
  • Shocks attach to tie plate extensions and to upper brackets to help dampen movement of axle

Specs:

• Application: triple-axle trailers with leaf spring suspensions
  • Axle size: 3" diameter (typical 5,200-lb to 7,000-lb axle)
• Shock length:
  • Extended: 17-1/2"
  • Compressed: 11-1/2"
• Quantity: 6 shocks
• Limited Lifetime Warranty

This Comfort Ride suspension upgrade system greatly improves your towing experience. It serves as an add-on for your leaf spring suspension, and it provides a notably smoother ride, reducing chucking, axle roll-up, and suspension rebound. This means that you'll experience improved handling, even over potholes and uneven pavement. And the contents of your trailer will stay in place during travel.

Gas Shocks Absorb Road Vibration

While traditional leaf springs support your trailer to prevent bottoming out, they don't necessarily provide a comfortable ride. Due to the rigidity of the steel construction, leaf springs do a poor job of absorbing shock and bounce and limiting sway.

Adding these shocks to your existing leaf spring suspension offers a better solution. Gas-powered springs inside of the sealed cylinders compress and extend as you drive. The compression and extension of the springs creates enough force to offset the amount of incoming force or vibration that occurs when you tow over rough or uneven terrain. The result is a more comfortable towing experience.

Many trailers will have shocks mounted at around a 40-degree angle, but this positioning doesn't compensate very well for the up-and-down movement of the trailer's suspension. Roadmaster's patented adjustable frame brackets are specifically designed to allow these shocks to be mounted at an optimum angle between 20 and 40 degrees. As a result, these shocks will have the leverage necessary to limit up-and-down and lateral movement during both compression and rebound.

Rigorous Testing Standards

The Comfort Ride shock absorber system has endured rigorous testing to ensure its durability and longevity. This testing includes computerized Finite Element Analysis, which establishes guidelines to ensure superior product quality and safety. Roadmaster also tested these shock absorbers at the Navistar Proving Grounds, a private test facility that provides real-world handling and safety testing. The result is a safe, long-lasting product that you can trust.

Installation

Installation of the Comfort Ride system is fairly straightforward.

The included tie plates replace your existing U-bolt tie plates. You will need to retain your existing U-bolts and nuts for installation. Once the tie plates are installed, bolt the upper mounting brackets to your trailer's frame with the included hardware. Some drilling is required when mounting the brackets to the frame. Finally, attach the shocks between the tie plates and the frame brackets.

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