Air bags needed for GMC 3500?
I just purchased a new GMC 3500 and am wondering if I will need to install air bags to keep the rear springs from sagging when towing my fiver. It has a weight of approx 3000 lbs on the hitch. John...
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Grit dog wrote:agesilaus wrote:
The only thing air bags do is: smooth out the ride and maybe even the tow side to side. The will NOT increase the load capacity one pound. Indeed they reduce it by their weight. Look at the payload/load capacity on the driver's door post and that is what you have to deal with. Either you have enough or you don't. And if you don't you need a smaller fiver or a bigger truck.
On paper or legally they don't, but in the real world they do.
So they suspend the laws of physics!, you should nominate yourself for a Nobel prize for this discovery.
