Podmods, Maintenance, Tips and Tricks: Shocks for a 179

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Shocks for a 179

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Topic: Shocks for a 179

Posted By: Jeepinator
Subject: Shocks for a 179
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2019 at 9:32pm

Casita and some other brands make a shock kit for their torsion axle trailers. Has anyone seen anything for our Pod’s? They love a good bounce.

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2018 Jeep Wrangler Willys
2017 179

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Posted By: TheBum
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2019 at 1:09pm

I'm not sure how they'd work on most R-Pods, since the torsion spring sticks out beyond the side of the trailer. The new wide-body R-Pods might be able to use something like that.

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Alan
2022 R-Pod 196 "RaptoRPod"
2022 Ram 1500 Lone Star 4x4
Three cats

Posted By: Olddawgsrule
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2019 at 3:18pm

Would certainly take an outrigger of sorts and someone here did one for support of the outbound axle.

There's a like conversation on my builder's forum. The consensus over there was to go torsion over spring spring suspension if concerned about shocks, though a few have added shocks to their torsion units. Very open debate. I fall in the category of a few others there debating the benefit of the shocks.

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