Info needed: Ford CMP 15cwt Hard Riding

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Edwin

Well your question about hare ride, promoted me to get the shocks for my Pat 12 C60L off the shelf and actually install them on the truck, only been driving it without them for 10 years.

Yes shocks actually make a difference that in an unquantifiable way does improve the ride. Drove the truck just before and just after connecting the links on the front over the same stretch dirt road and without changing anything else the ride was improved, maybe I was only feeling each bump once instead of twice.

But how hard the tires are is the major part of ride. Some of the tires I've seen on MVs were so hard that with no air they still held their shape particularly the original runflat tires..

Will report back after I get the rears connected. Of course no good effort goes unpunished, in the process of installing the rear shocks, crimped a brake line so had to replace one side and will bleed the brakes in the morning.

Cheers Phil