Thread: 110 SUSPENSION UPGRADE?

Possibly you need to load the trailer better? I have a 90, it will seasaw heaps if I incorrectly load a trailer. Might be worth a play with if you can, would be much cheaper.

Its a camper body fitted to the chassis of the 110. Weighs around 500kgs, i think.

130 Rear suspension?

Or poly-airs if it's temporary. Have you got the rear sway bar fitted?

Originally Posted by MR LR

130 Rear suspension?

Or poly-airs if it's temporary. Have you got the rear sway bar fitted?

Rear sway bar? tell me more, please

110 wagons have them I think? So I assumed utes do, or maybe it's just fronts on the wagons. I really don't know.

As you can probably tell from my avatar, I have a slide-on camper on a 110.

It weighs about 350kg empty and has two thirds of the weight in the front one third of the camper, so it is one of the better designs available and may not cause as much alarm as yours.

I needed new shocks, so I fitted Bilsteins and I believe that they significantly reduce the sway in some circumstances.

I later fitted Firestone air bags and run 20 psi when the camper is fitted and the recommended 5 psi when empty. They also considerably reduced the sway.

However my main reason for fitting the air bags was that there are several hills on the way into Bendethera Valley with eco drains. Before I fitted the air bags, it was a tricky balancing act getting the speed right. A couple of km/h too slow and I had to go back to second low all the way up the hill.

If I went a couple of km/h too fast, I could easily maintain third low, but the rear suspension was likely to bottom out over the eco drain. I can now easily maintain the speed needed to hold third with no risk of bottoming the suspension.

The combination of the air bags and good shocks made a huge difference. I think the air bags probably gave a greater improvement than the shocks.

In both cases I bought from the USA because even with the freight, the price was exactly half the price in Australia.

My bad.... thought you meant a trailer.

The above advice is pretty sound IMO - but if you really really want to get it under control I'd go even further and run twin Bilsiens in the rear, upgraded springs and Polyairs to boot. I carry a lot more weight into 110 wagon than you're talking about (including some high CoG stuff, like a RTT) and this set up keeps it all nicely under control.