Air bags?
Why air bags? To level a load that is too heavy on the hitch? Because the tow vehicle is towing too heavy for its rating? To make the road surfaces easier on the back side? Help us understand, ple...
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720Deere wrote:rhagfo wrote:
Wow, guess my truck must be broken!
I see all these post where posters claim to be well within their numbers, but still need bags to level.
I am over my GVWR, well within axle rating, and have no need to bags, don't even engage the overloads.
If you are going to make a claim like that, you probably shouldn't have picture evidence in your signature. That truck sure looks squatted well beyond level to me and that isn't even close to the load that most guys with bags are hauling. It is true that the earlier Dodge trucks do have extremely heavy rear springs. It also no more fair to compare your suspension to a 2013 truck than it would be to compare your transmission to a 2013.
The picture in my sig is from the tow home without any adjustments to the hitch or pin box, 5er was pin high.
This a more current picture also fully loaded headed for a week at the coast. True about the transmission, my NV4500, may some day be replaced with a G56.
No my 5er isn't a monster, but I do carry 11,000# with 2,000# of pin. What I consider a midsize many state that with the 12,300# GVW of the 5er it is 3500 territory. It just seems to me many use bags to "fix" issues they really are not designed to fix. Chucking and porpoising, cured what little I have with good shocks on the 5er and great shocks on the TV. JMHO
