Not many would say this, what's reasoning for your opinion? Truly interested as mine has the 9000s, they washboard like a lot talk about.
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The main advantage of the rs9ks over the Bilstiens is the adjustability of the shocks. It actually works..... Fox have a lot of advantages over the other two.
A 3/4 or 1 ton truck isn't going to ride great over speed bumps and plain ****ty on rough roads at lower speeds. Once you speed up and the suspension starts moving, ride smooths out.
Shocks don't truly change the ride, they dampen the spring vibration, so to truly change the ride, you have to change the springs.
That being said, bad shocks do cause a bad ride, because the spring can't stop moving fast enough, or stops to fast. You feel stopping to fast on slow crappy roads, the constant rolling inside the cab (for lack of a better word), usually this is the case on big trucks even with good shocks, the springs aren't moving enough to absorb the rough road. If the same road is driven at faster speeds, getting the springs to move more (and the shocks are OK), you'll feel the axle moving, but the truck smooths out. With bad shocks, it will have a weird uneven ride, possibly with a dance side to side.
I describe the speed bumps a little different, because of different shape and height of speed bumps, it's harder to determine exactly what is going on by driving over them. I guess on short and tall bumps, the type where the rear tires tend to fall off of them, instead of rolling off of them, the feeling your looking for is a kick up at the rear end. It should fall off and not really bounce, or kick up. You'll feel it hit the ground, but it should be a hard hit.
Front shocks mainly give you