Most comfortable riding

work2much wrote:

Kayteg1 wrote:

I like the idea about air suspension Dodge offers for rear and reviews are good so far.

We have been pleased so far although...

1. You can't fit a sway bar on the trucks fitted with factory air. I contacted Helwig and they have no plans at this time to develop one. The sway is a bit better than our 2004 ram 3500 with the same camper, but it would be nice to further reduce it. I might design my own.

I have the Hellwig Big Wig sway bar on my 2017 Ram w/ factory air assist. I had a 2014 SRW 3500 Ram that I put a Torklift Super Truss on and the HellWig bolted right up to that. I took the Super Truss and HellWig sway bar from that truck and had it installed on my new 2017' Ram. My new Ram rides so much better empty or loaded then my 2014' Ram did after all the suspension mods I made to carry the AF811. I made no mods to the suspension of the 2017' Ram except for the sway bar, the factory air assist really works nice in my case.

2. The stock rear shocks seem to be shot after 15,000 miles. Passenger side showing a leak. In all fairness these are all miles with our camper on and a couple thousand of those on dirt roads in Alaska. Not a big deal, I was going to replace them anyway.

3. There is no way (that I am aware of) to inflate the bags individually. This became apparent with our AF1150 which is heavier on the slide side. In the old truck I would just add more air on that side.

The air bags look a lot like standard aftermarket units. If I were to do it over I would have ordered the truck with the standard heavier rear springs that would allow stable loads, sway bar and aftermarket airbags (if needed)