what do you guys use to get rid of all that wheel hop? traction bars?

 

When are you getting Wheel hop.? My Fathers truck never gets any when he burns out or anything like that His is a 01 F250 5.4 manual ext cab long bed. Wheel hop in towing drop to lower Rpm's/gear. My truck gets nasty wheelhop I find it fun but you most likly don't since you want to fix it .:-)

 

What Exactly is wheel hop?

When im going around a turn on the freeway, it seems like the rear end, bounces around over a bump and almost lifts off the ground and moves. Its Sorta Scary.

 

wheel hop is when you burn yer tires off and it bounces the rear end of the truck. my super duty does not have any wheel hop except in reverse. my super duty also bounces around on rough corners(a real common thing in missouri). my 98' ranger also did it. i think thats a truck thing. im not to sure about a fix fer the problem except fer traction bars.


-nathan

 

wheel hop is not only a truck thing i can do it with my prelude is i rev to about 4k and take off. I have never be able to do it with my fathers superduty. In my F150 I can walk side ways with it like i said its kinda fun when your in a parking lot. But burning out is not really for a Fullsize truck So i really don't under stand why you want to stop wheel hop unless you burn out every day and in crowded areas. As for bumpyroads its the way the suspenion is build drop a couple 100lbs in the rear that should help that out.

 

Maybe some Rancho 9000 shocks might solve it.



1999.5 F-250 V-10 4x4 CC SWB Lariat 3.73

 

I get plenty of wheel hop going up 6% or greater grades on gravel roads up in the mountians. I also enjoy taking my corners Duke boy style. This whole wheel hop thing has got to go. Please give me some more suggestions. What kind or brand of traction bars do you have luck with.

 

I had thee rear wheel hop problem until I put the front leveling kit on. It hasn't done it since then.

2000 F350SD,RC,5spd man,V10, Front Leveling Kit,4.30 gears

 

The Excursions have a 7th leaf that is designed to prevent Axle wrap & Wheel hop. Cool thing is that it bolts right in BUT I would look at the arch differences of the two spring packs. The Excursion's are almost flat, whereas the SD have a nice arch to them.

What I'm attempting to get at is that it may take longer than originally designed for it to come into play but it is still worth a looksee.

Traction bars and such were never designed to help prevent wheel hop while imitating the immortal Bo Duke. They are designed for straight line take off.

I think playing with tire pressure may be the best (cheapest) bet. ;-)

 

warmdye, are you refering to the washboards on gravel roads? if so there is nothin you can do about that except maybe soften up the suspension. but still then you still bounce on them, its just that its abosorbed more. i have found that if you put some weight(im talkin a significant amount, 200+ Ibs.)it helps. i live on a gravel road with a steep hill and hog and turkey semi's are up and down it daily so we have washboards really bad! i just try to drive around them.


-nathan

 

I think I know what you're referring to as "wheel hop". It's not really wheel hop in the original sense of the term as it comes from drag racing. while you can experience this type of wheel hop if you are attempting to accelerate from slow speeds up a gravel incline, I think what you're experiencing is the tendency of the rear end of the truck to deflect and bounce off of ruts/washboard on gravel roads.

I'm going to assume that you're fairly familiar with driving on gravel, so it's not over steering or "over driving". With the stiff springs in the rear of the Superduties the trucks will definately have a tendency to bounce as there isn't enough weight on the rear of the truck to compress the springs and involve the shocks, think of it as basically having no suspension, or a hard tail in Harley speak. This is exaggerated by the large amount of weight over the front springs (especially you PSD guys). This sets up the situation where the rear then tends to rotate on an axis around the front axle, causing the side to side motion of the rear end of the truck. Think of it as a pendulum, the front axle is the fixed point, with the rear axle free to move in an arc around it.

Is there a simple fix? Not that I know of. Like the previous post suggest you can either add weight, or like Monsta suggested, run less air pressure when travelling gravel. I have actually found my SD to be very good and amazingly stable in grid road travels.

If you've ever owned a Chebby 1/2 ton you've experienced the very worst of this "wheel hop" phenomenon. I had one for a month and sold it, it was the worst handling vehicle I have ever had the misfortune of driving on a gravel road, and I have since driven several others and all handled the same. I can't explain it either, they ride like cars on the asphalt, best I can come up with is it's related to the torsion bar front suspension.

Anyhoo, long winded and not terrribly helpful, but I think what you're experiencing is pretty much unavoidable. Just another joy of owning a Superduty!

P.S. Dukes Forever! ( I baked my mom's Ford Tempo doing my best Bo Duke impressions.)

 

Thanks for the help.

 

IMO, the fix is simple: just add 500lbs to the bed. J/K