Having owned a 2013 Tacoma 4x4 and a 2017 GMC Sierra 4x4 Z71, I can share that the Ranger Tremor does not ride as smoothly as either of those vehicles. Tacoma had really soft springs and car tires from the factory and the Sierra was a lot heavier vehicle. Still, the Ranger Tremor rides good for a midsize pickup truck.
I think it was a cost saving move. I don't understand defending the overly stiff mono leaf rear with it's jarring ride. A 40K truck should ride reasonably.
Well that’s good to know what’s causing the lack of ride quality. That’s really my main gripe with this truck is feeling everything on the roads at lower speeds. I feel it right up into the seat. Smooth roads are no problem so that why I was thinking it was the rear leaf’s. I may look into these as well. Do you know which Raptor bump stops I need? Are those the ones on the F150s? I’ll need to keep my eye out for a set that will work.
The moment you put anything behind the axle you are taking weight off the front tires. You just don't get a visual indicator if your springs are too stiff to squat.
Here is something you are also missing. Once you start to squat you bring a big wind factor into play. How so you ask? Well the air/wind is now going to push the fro t of the truck off the ground as you go down the road. This will lift the tires off the ground even more. That makes it worse
Nope, wasn't missing that. Just pointing out that getting your truck not to squat doesn't mean it's got plenty of weight over the front.
Yep, although I'm curious by how much- truck undersides aren't exactly a wing, and lots of people out there run the squat look on purpose- even unloaded. Probably be a significant issue at speed, but I've been wrong before.
There was a set of the wildtrak springs on the ranger facebook page but they were 5 hours away. Not that bad but just bad enough to not pursue. He wanted $250 for the springs an U bolts.
My first cross country move in the Navy, me and my wife loaded up my. 02 4 cylinder rwd Tacoma to the max since it was all we had and made it from NY to San Diego just fine fully squatted. Not a single issue (well maybe a few hills lol). I remember every night having to unload everything out of the truck and into our hotel room. Oh the fun times. 100 percent sure I was way over the payload but at the time it had to be done, Deployment wasn’t going to wait haha. Oh that brings back some memories I thought I had been able to forget lol. Three animals and us fully loaded down access cab.
Leveled, dog-squatted, 8k lbs easy.. had to take twisty bumpy haggard ass back roads the whole way home... it's a wonder how I survived!?
Not.
It's fine.
You might want to compare payload and towing capacity for Tremor vs say FX4 or whatever you have. IIRC - tremor has a 500lb lower limit on towing capacity because of the softer springs. I can't recall if payload was similarly impacted - but I *think* so.
The tremor being more.level also takes part into the towing capacity. Even Ford knows once you go past level and start squating there will be problems
