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gorohoff
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Jul 24, 2013

Ride Rite on F350

Anyone have Firestone Ride Rite airbags on a F350 diesel 4x4 crew cab short bed? Specifically a 2011 or 2012? The kit doesn't seem to work without moving the brake line and electrical lines. Apparently this is not an issue with the long bed.
  • The older model Ride Rights for Fords replaced your axle bump stops under the frame rail if you had a fifth wheel hitch or bolted to the outside of the frame rail keeping your original bump stops with the standard kit. Are newer ones different? Mine did require using a supplied offset bracket for the brake line only on the driver side of my 2005.
  • Thanks for the info. I think the kit might be the wrong one for my truck because there is no way to get the bracket on without moving the brake lines, abs, electrical, etc. I was hoping if there was someone with a similar setup as me I could confirm which kit you have, or get a picture of what your mounted bracket looks like.

    Bedlam, do you have any pictures of your setup?

    wittmeba the pics in your blog post helps, I might need to look into AirLift.
  • I had to make my own hanger for the ebrake cable as well.
  • I'll see if I have more pictures later. These were when I did the install: