whats the simplest air bag setup?

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I think you've answered your own question - each bag needs to be isolated to keep air from transferring from one side to the other during cornering or any other time the suspension is unevenly loaded (like when someone who weighs 240 lb is driving the truck, like me, for instance)

From front to back, the bags will operate under different pressures because there is more weight on the front than the back.

I suppose you could just put a Schrader valve at each airbag and be done with it, but if anything leaks you'd have had to carefully design your lower limit stops so you could still limp back home to fix it. Most with airbags seem to want to have the ability to lower the truck to the ground so that's where they put the limit stops, but if it leaks and the truck is driven that way it will hang up on any road irregularity and won't have any turning radius because the front wheels may hit the fenders in a turn.

Then there's always the possibility of a flat tire. If you're running with low clearance on bags, you may not be able to get the tire out of the wheel well to change it without raising your suspension up. I have 10" wheels in the rear of my truck and I'm pretty certain I couldn't get the wheel off if I had a flat if the truck was low.

To get any utility out of the truck with airbags, I don't see anyway around having an on-board source of air and storage. It seems to me that a proven solution like the little larry manifold setup is a reasonable cost to counter the risk of not being able to get your truck up off the ground.



I plan to run a XJS sway bar up front on mine and it if still under-steers, add the sway bar on the rear too. I'm going to put the mounts in the rear, but I won't add the bar unless I have too.

Just my 2 cents.................