Air bags are not?
I need to hear some opinions. I have a set of like new air bags that I can get for a reasonable price. The question is will the air bags benefit me? TV is a 09 F150 crew cab 4X4 with 5.4 and heavy t...
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skipnchar wrote:
My opinion is that air bags have NO purpose for towing a conventional trailer. Yes they can prop up the rear end of the truck but they do NOTHING to replace the weight lost from the front axle and that can make handling very poor. Use a properly sized and properly adjusted weight distribution hitch and it will not only raises the rear it will also transfer weight back to the front axle so handling is back to normal. Size the spring bars for 15% of the GVWR of the trailer which is the maximum the tongue will ever weigh when loaded. Get the bars as close to this number as possible without being UNDER it.
He is not asking about using them to hold up the front end of the trailer, he was asking about using them to hold up payload in the bed of the truck - when attached to the trailer. His example was firewood - and the ability to change the pressure in them on a trip (bed loaded on the way there, empty on the way back) VS an add a leaf what is (more or less) permanent.
