[Richard]

I just wanted to do a longer term report on the impact of changing the worn out track bar, and the worn out tag axle bushings.

We are three thousand miles into this trip, and I can say without a doubt that one of the two repairs above corrected my nit picky handling issue. The issue was that I always felt like I was doing a very slow zig zag down the road. A minor correction to the right would always require the next correction to be to the left. This was most pronounced on a dead flat and smooth interstate with no wind. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. The coach would drive without this back and forth under two conditions. The first was if the road were heavily crowned, and the second was if the wind were blowing gently and consistently from one side or the other. I always felt like the rear end was steering the front end.

Another clue that the rear end was moving around was the push I would get when a semi got his nose just on my rear I would sense the coach move to the right so I would have to steer left to keep from crossing the center line.

Those issues went away with the replacement of the track bar and the tag axle bushings.

Don’t get me wrong, I still have to steer it, but I don’t have the rhythmic wander doing down the road any longer. An added bonus was the coach is much less of a handful in high winds than it was.