Better ride with load

I've been doing some yard work the past few weeks and so I've been haulin' mulch and landscape rocks. Had three different loads on three separate days. 1st was 10 large bags of mulch. 2nd was 880lbs of rocks, and the 3rd was 770lbs of rocks. Holy crap, my Doublecab TRDOR has never felt better. My pesky 15-25 MPH driveline vibe smoothed right out on all three trips during accelerating and decelerating, and was there in between hauls. Maybe the drive shaft angle changing with the loads helped? Makes me want to drive with a load all the time now! Gonna bring this up with my service team when she goes in for the 5k service.

 

Noticed the same thing when I was helping a buddy with a dump run. Weird

 

Changin dat dere pinion angle

 

Rear tire pressure might be a factor as well.

 

Everytime I haul something the ride is a bit smoother... makes sense loading the suspension so no bounce.

 

It's a truck, engineered to haul stuff.

The rear springs (lousy as they are) are designed for the truck being laden, not unladen.

If you looked and measured while loaded, bet you'd find it to be about 'level' too. Back goes down, front goes up.

While riding around laden might give a better ride, it won't improve your MPG, stopping, handling or acceleration.