Dual air bags
So I've been thinking'... (uh oh) I carry a LOT of weight in my Ram 3500 dually, and I have a set of airbags with in-cab controls. They work great. But I have to run them at very high pressure when l...
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ryoung wrote:
If you are worried that the present airbags are "putting an awful lot of stress on themselves, their mounting brackets & bolts, and the frame where they attach.", you're carrying to much **** weight.
No, I'm not. Excuse me while I go to my happy place...
OK I'm back and had some Kool Aid.
The REAL weight police, the ones I deal with in my Peterbilt boom truck, care about axle loading, tire size, axle spacing and number of axles. They don't give a hoot what your door sticker says.
The Dana 80 in my Dodge has more than enough capacity, the four 215/80/16s on the rear have more than enough capacity.
My old Vacationeer is heavy, but not heavier than every other 11.5 out there.
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The whole truck is beefed everywhere. The trans is full of billet parts and can lock solid in every gear under heavy throttle - without breaking. The motor is new and built on the Mexican-block 6BT, the stoutest one made. It's chock full of parts to make it blow your doors off and not break while doing it.
Rest assured it's up to the task at hand.
HOWEVER, I feel the weakest link in the rear suspension is the upper brackets on the Air-Lift airbag overloads. I'm the kind of guy who will pull the thing into the shop and make or remake something to my liking. I'm liking the external air reservoir idea even better than doubling the bags though. Getting real ideas like that is why I posted this in the first place.
We have a '15 F550 at work... it's nice, it's stout, but it beats you up to ride in it. At least its a bit smoother than the '99 F450 it replaced! There's no way my wife would ride in one of those going to work and back every day. And I don't blame her.
