Air ride hitches
Hello Folks! Just looking for opinions on products like the Trail Saver and other air ride hitches. I'm trying to understand how much smoother they really are than a more traditional Reese hitch. ...
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hone eagle wrote:
Air pin boxes are a waste of money on a heavy trailer.
Why?
I always ask the owner when I see one -how much PSI are you running?-
because at around 80-90 # they are practically a solid, vibration damper at that point.
They have too little volume and surface area,Air hitches are a better solution but quite heavy , the E.T is 700 pounds,
They are a wonderful hitch if you can swing it ,my trailer no longer swung up and down in a 'teeder totter' motion but now moves in a horizontal plane ,alway on a level .
It also can be used as a aid to unhitch,pull pins on landing gear and make contact with the ground ,air out unlock and drive out.
Reminds me onboard air is another expense .
good luck
I am not saying anything bad about air ride hitches!
I have the TrailAir air bag kingpin with the TriGlide. I can watch the RV float above the truck bed in the rear view mirror. Properly inflated with my 4,500# pin weight I am about 75psi.
I have never towed with a AirBorn air bag kingpin. But just looking at the geometry of it there is no way it can work as well as the TriGlide. JMHO
