Air bags improved ride while not towing?
I have a 2009 2500 HD Duramax.... I'm thinking about installing air bags and am wondering if while not towing do they improve the ride of the truck. You know less jarring....smoother ride etc ??????
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Kahona,
When loaded, you want to air up towards unloaded level profile, so as to keep the headlights out of the trees but not to the point that you take the factory springs, particularly the over-rides out of the equation. Depending upon the trailer pin weight or bumper weight, you might see unloaded pressures increase by 15 to 25 psi. For example unloaded i run 5 psi, prepare to load 5er i raise it up to 25-30. When 5er is loaded it becomes 45-50 psi. Just like tire pressures, with heat from activity this may go up another 5 psi or so, and in early morning cold it may be down 10 psi or so.
Too much air and you ride like a concrete mixer, not enough and your rear end sags and you bottom out hard against the axle stops a lot. That teeth-jarring bottoming our is much rougher than riding empty on bad shocks.
When loaded, you want to air up towards unloaded level profile, so as to keep the headlights out of the trees but not to the point that you take the factory springs, particularly the over-rides out of the equation. Depending upon the trailer pin weight or bumper weight, you might see unloaded pressures increase by 15 to 25 psi. For example unloaded i run 5 psi, prepare to load 5er i raise it up to 25-30. When 5er is loaded it becomes 45-50 psi. Just like tire pressures, with heat from activity this may go up another 5 psi or so, and in early morning cold it may be down 10 psi or so.
Too much air and you ride like a concrete mixer, not enough and your rear end sags and you bottom out hard against the axle stops a lot. That teeth-jarring bottoming our is much rougher than riding empty on bad shocks.
kohana wrote:
For those posting towing airbag psi is that before or after hooking up?
