Its a truck. Gravel and wet roads are slippery for the rear of a truck anyways. Lol.
Is this your first truck?

 

HA HA.. no I've had tons of trucks and jeeps.. mostly Fords mind you but never had this kind of slip.. maybe I'm just not used to the LSD..

 

Hard to say.
I have a LSD in my truck and it doesn't slip around corners like your saying.
Of course I can make it slide easy enough by gassing on it hard.
Even break it loose on dry pavement if I want.
I think everybody with a truck can slide on gravel and wet roads with too much throttle.

 

Yeah.. not the kind of slipping i'm talking about; No even on pavement it likes to slip turning when i said loose i should had specified not like gravel;, example was at the lake leading up the boat ramp it was pavement maybee some loose rock here and there overall as an old paved surfaced would be but overall we were turning right and the left rear was constantly slipping very little throttle;.. I noticed it because i could hear it slipping on the pavement being i was on the boat about to launch .. this is something i noticed it could just be the LSD doing what it does.. i was just trying to think of ways to give it a little more traction highly doughtful shocks would do that alone but you never know..

I know when i had the rear jacked up doing brakes; i noticed that when i had turned the right wheel there seemed to be a slight delay before the left side turned.. i accounted it to the LSD unit but seems there is some degree of play between both sides; this could account for that slip im noticing. I feel this thread is starting to turn from shocks and such to axel..

ON the other topic about tire pressure discount tire put the front and rear at different pressures as per the manf. sticker tire pressure.. the front being a little less air pressure..
I wounder what would be the advantages or disadvantages of having both front and rear at the same tire pressure and having them equal. I guess it has something to do with the traction for steering..

 

I kind of adjust my air pressure by the kind of driving i am doing. Different make tires have diff. loads/air psi...(BFGoodrich AT have a max of 50), less air =more traction. , a bit more will 'roll' easier= mpg and will spin easier...

 

I run all four the same pressure.
But that doesn't mean all four need to be the same.
Example, if a tire is 50psi at max load of 3500 lbs and you never exceed 1750 lbs then you should be good at 25psi.
Hence front and rear weigh differently so front and rear should be aired differently.
Say your whole truck weighs 6500 lbs.
Front being heavier at 3500.
Rear at 3000.
Two tires on front split the weight as do the rears.
So fronts should be 25psi and rears should be 20psi.
But adjusted for trailer towing and loads.

Would that not give proper tire contact?
Seems as though it would.
I ran numbers like that on my Swampers as it worked quite well.
But what a pain.
I run my Duratracs at 30. All four.
Different truck. But I haul and trailer with this one regularly.

 

RDUCK; that's what i was thinking. I guess they only do it to be on the safe side for liability.. "Thats what the sticker shows" I think i will do that.. a little less pressure in the rear but not much being i do tow a boat sometimes.

 

They have too. Liability exactly. Full pressure.