Firestone ride right air bag's

[colliehauler]

I have a mystery air leak on my passage side air bag. I have sprayed every connection and the bag itself and cannot find a leak, has to be small. I thought about adding a 1/2 gallon air reservoir. Now it has a line for each bag that you fill by the tag.

Anyone else have similar problems?

[Hondavalk]

I had a slow leak that turned out to be dirt in the Schrader valve. Probably should be more careful with keeping the air chuck off the ground. Took the Schrader apart and cleaned the valve body and all was good.

[JustLabs]

Paul Clancy wrote:
I had one with a slow leak. Pulled out the fill valve from bumper. Removed the red hose. Cut the end 90deg flat. Cleaned inside the valve and reinserted the hose ( pushed in good). Leak fixed. An installer on this board said the actual bags rarely fail - more often the fill valves.

That's what I had to do with one of my bags. I thought they were cut square,but not quite I guess.

[rrev]

You have any friends that are mechanics? You could try to put some UV Dye in the system and fill it up with are and look for the dye. Never tried it but at least it would give you a spot.

And that reminds me, I need to check the pressure in mine before the weekend.

[colliehauler]

Paul Clancy wrote:
I had one with a slow leak. Pulled out the fill valve from bumper. Removed the red hose. Cut the end 90deg flat. Cleaned inside the valve and reinserted the hose ( pushed in good). Leak fixed. An installer on this board said the actual bags rarely fail - more often the fill valves.

Thanks I will give it a try.

[colliehauler]

christopherglenn wrote:
The 1/2 gallon tank is actually a good idea. They are usually used as ping tanks, when you hit a bump the pressure in the bag spikes, the tank gives it a place to go so the ride is not as harsh. I am going to put one on each side when I get the bags on my new truck.

I found a 5 port tank on ebay for 35. with free shipping.

Leak bugs the heck out of me though.

[Paul_Clancy]

I had one with a slow leak. Pulled out the fill valve from bumper. Removed the red hose. Cut the end 90deg flat. Cleaned inside the valve and reinserted the hose ( pushed in good). Leak fixed. An installer on this board said the actual bags rarely fail - more often the fill valves.

[christopherglen]

The 1/2 gallon tank is actually a good idea. They are usually used as ping tanks, when you hit a bump the pressure in the bag spikes, the tank gives it a place to go so the ride is not as harsh. I am going to put one on each side when I get the bags on my new truck.

[fj12ryder]

Have you checked the valve? Short of pulling the whole thing out I can't think of an easy way to track the leak down. It could be on the backside of the bag where you can't see it, or on the inside curve of the bag.

OTOH if it holds air that long, and it was a real pain to get to, I'd probably just haul along an air bubble and fill it when it got low enough.

[nohurry]

You may have tried this already, but try airing up to max PSI, then hooking up your RV, or similar load, THEN spray everything, including the fill valves. It may help to force enough air out to show up. If not, just give it time to get bad enough to show, it won't get any better. Good luck.

[colliehauler]

fj12ryder wrote:
How small of a leak is it? Loses how many psi over what period of time? What purpose would the 1/2 gallon air reservoir serve? Just as a bandaid?

Takes about a week to go down. There is no air volume in just the lines, a small tank might keep it for a month.

Agree it's just a bandaid, but don't know if it's the air bag or air line's. I have used soapy water a couple of times trying to find the leak spraying every part of the system.

[fj12ryder]

How small of a leak is it? Loses how many psi over what period of time? What purpose would the 1/2 gallon air reservoir serve? Just as a bandaid?