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JimK-NY
Jul 06, 2018Explorer II
Optimistic Paranoid wrote:
I'm curious. On your airbags, was there one air inlet hooked up to both bags, or did each side have it's own?
I've seen a bunch of posts that said that a single inlet allows air to move from one side to the other, which is why the airbags don't seem to help with sway at all, but that the double inlet doesn't have that problem.
The right and left airbags were independent. I believe the RV dealer set the pressures at about 50 pounds. The sway was really bad but that was my first experience trying to drive with a camper on the truck. Later I tinkered and lowered the pressure to the 20 pound range. I also cranked up the Rancho shocks to maximum. That helped with the sway but the shocks made the ride really bad and every tar strip in the road was very annoying. On my first cross country trip, I stopped at the Northstar plant. Rex recommended setting the bags so the passenger side was 1 1/2 inch higher to compensate for the crown in the road. We left with about 45 pounds on the left and 65 on the right. The sway was horrible again so I dropped back to about 15 pounds on both. I did not check the bags again for a couple of years and when I did one bag was torn and the other had just a couple of pounds of pressure.
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