Independent Front Suspension on trucks in the future?

Quite a few of them still out there....setting. You are correct, it was during the time of the "Viking" style that chevy had when torsion bar suspension was used in the medium duty trucks. Use to drive one with a V6 GMC engine, not a bad O'l truck at all, but then again it didn't see 80-100,000 miles a year neither.

 

Bottom line is I don't buy propaganda. Give me a genuinely independent review and I may be swayed. Let me look the system over myself, see what kind of abuse it can take, maybe. Computer models of some engineer's dream- No.

 

We had to put in a wedge to get one truck right . It was doing what yours is now. Slipped in between the spring and axle. Think it was ether 3 or 5 degree.

 

"We had to put in a wedge to get on truck right . It was doing what yours is now. Slipped in between the spring and axle."

That wedge is known as a "caster shim." Had to have the same thing done on a brand new 2014 Pete. It pulled to the right and they tried to say the fix (caster shim) wasn't covered under warranty. Ended up getting done under policy, but still....

 

If they can't get independent to last on 3/4 ton trucks(Chevy) I'm not sure I'd trust it on a class 8

 

What spring ride may lack in driver comfort, it more than makes up for it in dependability. My K100 still has the factory springs and torsion bars on it after 35 years.

 

how many drivers this truck worn out during 35years?

here before we had some mack cabovers , there was saying one mack change 3 drivers during its life

i wonder if ever any of bus rear suspension elements could find its way in trucks at least on rigids

 

In Ukraine Bogdan plant has independent suspension setup for buses and trolleybuses.

They use Wabco ECAS with four level sensors and level control of evey wheel.

This suspension runs very smooth, no sway in sharp turns, but rubber bushings wear is too expencive to fix, really every year (may be becouse we have rought roads).

If operator ignore worn suspention, he may be faced to exessive tire wear.

 

Buses run a lot less weight than trucks. Plus the engine I'd usually out back which takes a big weight off the front suspension.

Military 7ton transport trucks run independent suspension, but they haul a lot less weight than us and cover about as many miles in a year as an team driven OTR truck does I'm a month.