Replacing Front Coil Springs With Airbags

When the pitch decreases with regard to the coil springs on your vehicle that s when you need air bags to help you out.

Replacing front coil springs with airbags.

At some later production the oem put in stiffer springs. Removal of old bags by cutting out old donuts with dremel saw and pulled out old airbag with locking long nose plier while twisting motion. Also relaced air bags in springs. It fills in the spaces and doesn t let your vehicle bow down as much as it would without that extra support.

Had vehicle weighed and selected springs that were rated for 1400 lbs over actual weight. Coil rite air helper springs work by simply adding air to the air bag just like you would when inflating a tire. You can search this forum for more detail on bags springs. The ability of being able to increase and decrease air pressure in your coil spring air bag allows you to easily alter your coil spring performance.

Replacing old air bags no the suspension type. On board air compressor systems are not required but make things easy. Usa staff available 1 877 774 6473. Had lean to passenger side berfore replacement.

They are based on actual loaded front axle weight with driver passenger not the gvw. Replacing the front air springs in my 1989 winnebago superchief. The air bags job is to get in the way of those coils by taking the place of the pitch or the empty space. The airbags were used to fudge the ride height to take into account the weight of the house.

Installation done by deflating and twisting and forcing into spring coil center hole. I am extremely happy with the ride now. It does this by providing the correct ride height thus reducing both sway and bottoming out. Supersteer coil springs properly support your front end for a better ride quality eliminating the need for the airbags contained within the oem springs.

Pad donuts on either end of air bag guided in with long nose. I tried to do this in a how to format let me know what you think or if you have any quest. Sd truck springs motorhome air suspension and rv airbags helper springs timbren hellwig air bag kits sway bars leveling kits leaf springs shocks absorbers coil springs truck parts. Heavy duty coil springs dayton 350 6560 rating.

3 stars ok used to replace front springs on a 98 p30 motorhome chassis. The kits include everything you need to inflate your air bags manually like you would a tire.