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Ram’s director of engineering, Mike Cairns, said thatusinga version of Jeep’s link/coil suspension provided so much flexibility in tuning, they moved from four rear shock absorber variations to 18 when they moved from leaf-springs in the Ram 2500. Mr. Cairns told us:
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One of the biggest benefits of a coil spring, is there’s zero friction … [with] leaf springs, all those leaves have to slide against each other… it’s pushing back, pushing back, and all of a sudden it’ll slip. … It’s busy, where a coil is just smooth, constant spring force, so you can much better tune a coil spring suspension.
We’ve got about 18 different rear shocks on a Ram 2500 [not in each truck, but
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We’ve got about 18 different rear shocks on a Ram 2500 [not in each truck, but
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