Let's talk air bags...
My 1999 7.3 dually has airbags installed by the previous owner. I've generally not bothered to inflate them unless towing a trailer with my Bigfoot camper (4000lbs loaded). Today while driving on Cali...
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Has almost nothing to do with “feel” and almost everything to do with carrying the load and bringing the vehicle back up to level ish ride height.
Sounds like you don’t need or don’t know how to judge if you even need them.
If you’re hauling the same camper with 0 psi or 30psi your truck should or will handle differently.
The fact that you are running them anywhere between 0 and 90 psi with presumably similar loads is really strange.
Although it does support your question since you can’t tell what different pressures do to your ride/handling.
I, nor anyone else, can help you gain that sense that you’re lacking though.
I’ll assume 5000lb bags. You get about 500lbs of uplift for every 10psi. When you’re at 90psi. Your springs are doing virtually none of the work and it should ride like a bouncy house. 0 psi and 4000lbs on your truck if it’s the old stock springs is at the upper end of the practical payload of the springs.
Sounds like you don’t need or don’t know how to judge if you even need them.
If you’re hauling the same camper with 0 psi or 30psi your truck should or will handle differently.
The fact that you are running them anywhere between 0 and 90 psi with presumably similar loads is really strange.
Although it does support your question since you can’t tell what different pressures do to your ride/handling.
I, nor anyone else, can help you gain that sense that you’re lacking though.
I’ll assume 5000lb bags. You get about 500lbs of uplift for every 10psi. When you’re at 90psi. Your springs are doing virtually none of the work and it should ride like a bouncy house. 0 psi and 4000lbs on your truck if it’s the old stock springs is at the upper end of the practical payload of the springs.
