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wintersun
Dec 15, 2014Explorer II
If I had your truck the first thing I would do is take it to a CAT scale and get the weights on the front and rear wheels with and without the camper. Then knowing the increased load on the rear wheels with the camper I would order a set of SuperSprings and when they arrived I would remove the air bags and install the Supersprings which in total would take at most a couple of hours.
The Supersprings are not active unless the camper is on the truck and then the amount of support varies with the load to support the weight. Nothing to adjust and nothing to fail and no impact on the stock ride of the truck when the camper is off.
Air bags are suitable for use with a trailer to exactly manage the height of the truck to the trailer. For campers they offer no advantages over overload springs and quite a few disadvantages. I also would not want to take a chance of having one of them fail while out traveling with the camper in the truck. It would make it dangerous to drive the truck and it would cut short my trip until I could get the air bag replaced.
The Supersprings are not active unless the camper is on the truck and then the amount of support varies with the load to support the weight. Nothing to adjust and nothing to fail and no impact on the stock ride of the truck when the camper is off.
Air bags are suitable for use with a trailer to exactly manage the height of the truck to the trailer. For campers they offer no advantages over overload springs and quite a few disadvantages. I also would not want to take a chance of having one of them fail while out traveling with the camper in the truck. It would make it dangerous to drive the truck and it would cut short my trip until I could get the air bag replaced.
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