i thought about doing coilovers but they are less versatile than air bags. with air bags if i am off roading in the hill country (where my dads place is) i would be able to inflate the front bags if there is something that my bumper wont clear. also the ability to make the truck "kneel" will be very helpful as i am the only one who has a lifted truck in my family so i am always having to raise the trailers to hook up (they have half tons so it can be a long way up even with an 8" drop hitch).

not that i would do this but its an idea. if i was parked illegally where i thought my truck would get towed i could drop the truck so its resting on the tires making it a pain in the *** to move. or if i was in a bad part of town i could raise the truck making it harder to get to the locks to punch them out. given the above are minor things but if it stops it from happening once it could save my ***.

before i say this next part i will admit that i am an idiot for saying and/or doing it. when at the beach or a truck show i wanna be able to control all 4 bags and make the truck dance a little to show off. yes i know that makes me more likely to blow a bag.

 

ha i gotcha man! airbags are fun, i have had a bagged truck in my day. only thing i dont like is SOLELY relying on air. it can really screw you. as far as making it rest on bags, i dont know if i would go that far. (just in case air does fail) it does seem like a cool idea though! keep posted on what you decide to do!

 

Compressor sits up top on all of them, ie wont clear the hood BUT that bracket would be a handy starting point for mounting it down low. And I think youre right about the different frames and def be better to run true full out 4 link.

As for the sway bar. We've always just used the detachable links so you can run without yet with one pin get a true sway bar back. Dont really know of any other way to do it and keep her stable on the highway

 

i hear ya on blowing bags. thinking i will always have a spare on board. may even go as far as getting one of those air bag jack things or an air powered jack to be able to pick the truck up by the frame and swap a bag on the side of the road it i have to

 

chew on this, 4 bag the rear with a inline check valve on the feed line so if you blow a bag it won't bleed back and drop the other bags. so it would be almost fail proof. (ALMOST!) but think about it, look at OTR trucks going down the road, how many have you seen with a blown bag? if you do this, i would get bags designed for trucks. not thos that are just helper bags.

 

thats actually a good idea.

not that it would be possible but could it also be done on the front. guessing not bc of all the steering

 

the front would be tricky... i know the rear would be no problem. it might take a little imaginearing but i bet you could 4 bag the front. hell if you can put 3 shocks on the front i bet you can put 4 bags up there.

 

had an idea. would it be possible to run a center bag on the front (over sized bag attached to a cross member) and have a piece of plate attached to the axle that it would bolt to. would have the bag tied up out of the way with the air flow to it turned off. if i do blow a bag i could use that one to lift the truck up enough that i would be able to swap out the blown bag on either side(gotta make sure its tall enough). and it wouldnt be used as part of the suspension system. not sure if the axle would handle that much weight over such a small area but if it could then that might be a good way to have a back up in case something does happen

 

OR, make up a temporary bracket that clamps to the axle and to the frame where you put a bag in there and lift?

 

this is y i post here. i have brain farts that lead me to do overly complicated things like what i said. wouldnt have thought of a temp bracket.

i guess 2 temporary brackets one on either side would work perfect. what would be really cool but overly expensive and way to time consuming would be to get one of those electric goose neck lifts (the leg things mind went blank and i cant thing of their name to save my life) and mount them on a 2" piece of rectangular tube and hook them up in the bumper. use that to lift the truck for anything from changing a flat to air bags and be able us use them as supports for winching things around that would drag the truck. but that would be hard and would rarely get used