RP 180

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   +1. The 2015 rpod brochure shows the lift kit as an option. My 179 has them and had 14 inch wheels. So the lift was an option in the east with 14 inch wheels but standard in the West with 15 inch wheels. I have since put 15 inch wheels on mine, so it is configured the same as the 2015 HRE’s now. 

I think the axles themselves were the same Lippert 3500 lb torsion axles east and west  in 2015. My question is, did that change at some later point so the axles are now different?

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offgrid Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290	Topic: RP 180 Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 1:07am
	+1. The 2015 rpod brochure shows the lift kit as an option. My 179 has them and had 14 inch wheels. So the lift was an option in the east with 14 inch wheels but standard in the West with 15 inch wheels. I have since put 15 inch wheels on mine, so it is configured the same as the 2015 HRE’s now. I think the axles themselves were the same Lippert 3500 lb torsion axles east and west in 2015. My question is, did that change at some later point so the axles are now different?
	1994 Chinook Concourse 1995 RV6A Experimental Aircraft 2015 Rpod 179 - sold

mcarter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 07 Apr 2016 Location: Greenbrier, TN Online Status: Offline Posts: 3419	Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 2:19am
	My Pod has a Dexter axle.
	Mike Carter 2015 178 " I had the right to remain silent, I just didn't have the ability."

offgrid Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290	Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 8:24am
	Interesting. So we have your eastern 2015 178 with Dexter, my eastern 2015 179 with Lippert (I think StephenH's makes two?), and Toyanvil I think has a western 2016 178 with Lippert, bhessie has a 2015 western? 178 with Lippert. Then there is alandlearned's 2015 178 eastern? with Lippert. Seems random. Is it just whatever FR happened to have in stock that day or does anyone else see a pattern?
	1994 Chinook Concourse 1995 RV6A Experimental Aircraft 2015 Rpod 179 - sold

JR Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 31 Aug 2018 Location: Manistee, MI Online Status: Offline Posts: 343	Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 10:50am
	Just some more data, we purchased in Michigan a new 179 (eastern edition) model year 2019 took delivery on July 2018. The RPod has 15" load range D tires with a Lippert axel rated at 3500 lbs and no lift kit.
	Jay 179/2019

offgrid Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290	Posted: 03 Oct 2020 at 7:43am
	Somebody correct me if I'm wrong but I think FR recently dropped the lift kit in favor of bringing off the axle torsion arms at a steeper angle so that all the rPods ride higher. Did all of them go to 15 inch wheels at the same time? That would make the west and east versions the same now?
	1994 Chinook Concourse 1995 RV6A Experimental Aircraft 2015 Rpod 179 - sold

GlueGuy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 15 May 2017 Location: N. California Online Status: Offline Posts: 2627	Posted: 03 Oct 2020 at 12:47pm
	Our 2017 179 HRE (built in 2016) has the clocked Lippert axle and the 15" tires.
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