3500 Ram factory air suspension

Gary3 wrote:
I'm a little confused I've seen lots of trucks carrying campers with airbags over the years on all kinds of trucks. A friend had them on his truck and liked them why are these factory ones different. On my last truck I had the springs reworked twice and the truck still squatted in the rear the owner of the shop asked me why I don't just add airbags.That was on my 2007 DRW Dodge and there was no factory swaybar on that truck.

The Ram air suspension doesn't just add airbags. It replaces part of the spring pack with air bags. I had aftermarket airbags on my 94 Ram 2500HD and my 2004 Ram 3500 dually. In both cases the springs did most of the lifting with the air bags assisting. On the 2004 I had only a small amount of air to level the truck from side to side as the camper was unequally heavy on the passenger (slide) side.

The design of the new trucks is to have a relatively light spring pack so the truck drives much more smoothly when unloaded with the air bags picking up weight as the truck is loaded.

The truck does pick up the weight, the truck will ride level front to back. We have almost 25,000 miles on the truck n ow carrying very large truck campers. The system will work.

My main complaint is the lack of adding a sway bar. I have seen people modify the lines for the air ride (prying them out of the way) to install a sway bar on these trucks. As it stands though the air ride components are located in the way of adding a sway bar. A component I consider advantageous with a full size truck camper.

Thus my initial recommendation to stick with the stock spring pack suspension. You can always add the air bags later (and the sway bar).

If you have already committed to the truck with air suspension and there is no turning back then I'm not sure why asking/debating the advice given. Hopefully for your set-up you will be pleased with the truck. With a lighter camper than ours the sway affect will be less.