Air suspension for Navion on Sprinter chassis

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Anything is possible providing one has plenty of ca$h. Is you rig really in need? Our View is very much the same and I wouldn't think its necessary, but that's just me.

Is it the terrain you're driving? What condition are your shocks in? Have you added anything like a sway bar?

If it's riding hard, like many Class C's, it's probably riding a lot harder from the rear axle than the front. Again, like many Class C's... So...

If you haven't, please load the coach as for a trip, toad behind if you have one, and find a Travel Center (used to be called Truck Stop...) with a CAT Scale and Michelin's Load/Pressure Chart.

Weigh and adjust tire pressure according to weight and your tire size. The Michelin Chart is by "corner" so if you have 7000 pounds rear axle weight, use 3500 pounds in the Dual row to find your pressure.

In my 7000 pound example, that's only 50-PSI in the rear tires. It is VERY common for service people, even "tire techs" to "Sidewall" the pressure. If you have Load Range E tires, "80 PSI MAX" is stamped into the sidewall and that's what they inflate to. If your coach calls for 50 and tires are at 80, it's gonna ride much harder than it needs to.

If adjusting the air pressure in the tires doesn't help then you can always have a Kelderman air suspension installed

On the web site I provided look down it a ways and they have an air suspension for the Sprinter dually.

I have had Kelderman suspension on 2 different trucks that I had. One was on a commercial F450 and the other on a F550. I really liked how they changed the ride of the vehicle.

I have air ride rear suspension on my current MH but it came on the International Durastar chassis stock from the factory.

Dosno wrote:
Is it possible to upgrade suspension to air suspension for Sprinter chassis?

Suggest looking for solutions rather than a band aid. The place to start is, as a respondent said, is the tire pressures. "MOST" Sprinter based RVs with duals on the rear axle are rated at 11,030 lbs Gross Vehicle Weight Rating. IF the rear TP is high they will ride HARD! (personal experience)

Conveniently, thanks to the Feds, there is a placard on the driver door sill that will indicate the MAX PSI for the GVWR. You want to start with the recommendation. Usually, the tire 'wallahs' pump them up to max sidewall pressure or some guessed at PSI based on ???.

Start with the placard. If you know your actual... mission ready weight and it is less than GVWR, you may be able to sneak down a couple PSI as the extra PSI is not necessary.....