Add air bags or air shocks to level trailer???

If you add air shocks, how much weight are the shock mounts designed to carry? If you extend the shock to raise a side of the RV you will be taking the weight off the suspension and putting it on the shock mounts.

A company used to sell air bags that went under the tires on the low side. The company has been out of business for a while but some on here made their own air bag levelers from salvage fire hose.

Fairly neat idea, subscribing to see how it turns out. Could be a complicated install. But would be pretty darn easy at campsite setup - pull in, walk over to the air valve, and air till level.

Seems like a big fix for a non-problem to me.

What I'm thinking, is a single airbag, set up between each axle with some type of beam, suspended by springs, to retract the bags away from the axles while underway. But once at the site, air would force the beam down to the axles and level side to side.



I have airbags on the truck for when I was carrying a truck camper and they work great. Hard as a rock when inflated.I don't think there will be any movement and the stabilizers will remove any that remains.

I'm ordering a set of airbags today to try this out. Maybe a new business venture fro me!

You'd still put down your stabilizers, so that would/should take care of the boing, boing, boing deal right??

You'd also have to be able to adjust the bags/shocks independently from side to side to get any kind of lift to level it out from side to side.

Still doable, but not sure just sticking a 2x6 board under the low side doesn't do the same thing.. ;)

Mitch

Walk over to any vehicle with air shocks
Step up on bumper and see how much bounce you get


Same thing would happen with a trailer as you walk around inside.....boing boing boing

Not the right application.

I suppose it's possible. You'd have to find some way to fabricate a trailing arm to connect the axles to the frame then make connections for the air bags. I don't see any way you could keep the leaf springs in service and use bags for leveling. I think the bags would fight the springs and equalizer if you had to lift one side extensively.

It's definitely a neat idea and would certainly remove the need for boards or lynx levelers to get the trailer set from side to side.

Rbertalotto wrote:
Has anyone added air bags or air shocks to their travel trailer simply for leveling when in camp. Not for additional weight.

Seems like it would be ideal.....

I would love to put mine up on air bags, not for leveling but to take some of the bounce out going down the road. Not much available in after market.

For leveling purposes, you'd have quite the wiggle with air bags I would think.

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Sounds like a plan to me!

Mitch