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sailed2japan · 10-09-2009, 01:50 AM

HAs anyone here ever done a lift with airbags? I'm wondering how hard it is to set up the front and rear 4 links. It seems like a 4 link+steering+panard bar is alot to cram onto the front end. I've seen it doen, but only on meag lifted trucks and I want to do something a little more moderate, but want as good a ride as I can get. I figure that with the cost of a 8" lift it wouldn't be much more to do air ride.

blazinzuk · 10-09-2009, 02:12 AM

On what kind of truck? Alot of it depends I have done rear airbags on a 78 crew cab dually. Plenty of room in the back. I have also put a 3 link in the front of a flatfender that really only has about 4" of lift. Clearances are measured in paper widths.

I don't see a problem with putting airbags on with 4" of lift at all. Just have to be a bit more careful.

Front me 500 and I will do my dually and let you know how it goes

I will be doing airbags all the way around in my 86 crew cab dually

sailed2japan · 10-09-2009, 11:33 PM

If it got done it would be on a 83 as part of a 2wd-4wd conversion I was thinking I would be able to put the bags in the location of the factory coils then put some perches on an axle and build it up from there.

10-09-2009, 01:50 AM	#1
sailed2japan Jonny Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Outside the Box, Austin,TX Posts: 741	Air ride lift HAs anyone here ever done a lift with airbags? I'm wondering how hard it is to set up the front and rear 4 links. It seems like a 4 link+steering+panard bar is alot to cram onto the front end. I've seen it doen, but only on meag lifted trucks and I want to do something a little more moderate, but want as good a ride as I can get. I figure that with the cost of a 8" lift it wouldn't be much more to do air ride. __________________ 1966 C30, Cummins, stacks, and a flat bed in progress... "Honor.....simply put, A veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve is someone who, at one time in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America', for an amount of 'up to and including his life.' That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it." -AEC Hundley USNR

10-09-2009, 02:12 AM	#2
blazinzuk Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Afton Wy Posts: 77	Re: Air ride lift On what kind of truck? Alot of it depends I have done rear airbags on a 78 crew cab dually. Plenty of room in the back. I have also put a 3 link in the front of a flatfender that really only has about 4" of lift. Clearances are measured in paper widths. I don't see a problem with putting airbags on with 4" of lift at all. Just have to be a bit more careful. Front me 500 and I will do my dually and let you know how it goes I will be doing airbags all the way around in my 86 crew cab dually

10-09-2009, 11:33 PM	#3
sailed2japan Jonny Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Outside the Box, Austin,TX Posts: 741	Re: Air ride lift If it got done it would be on a 83 as part of a 2wd-4wd conversion I was thinking I would be able to put the bags in the location of the factory coils then put some perches on an axle and build it up from there. __________________ 1966 C30, Cummins, stacks, and a flat bed in progress... "Honor.....simply put, A veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve is someone who, at one time in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America', for an amount of 'up to and including his life.' That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it." -AEC Hundley USNR



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