Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 16:21
Once again you avoid telling me how I should level the vehicle by using the REAR airbags only.
You certainly can level a vehicle using the bags if it is only levelling the load in it but not after adding a load to the towbar, something most unusual in a bus for instance and the weight of the trailer would hardly affect a vehicle already weighing some 10 tonne anyway.
Using trucks and buses is only fudging the issue as I have been driving airbag equipped buses for 10 years and they are totally different to stuffing a pair of Polyairs in the back of a cruiser.
The ones I drove had individual controls for both front and/or rear or all at once.
It still doesnt alter the fact that if you put a heavy weight on the towbar 4 feet behind the rear axle, raising that point will not put the weight back onto the front wheels that the act of attachiing the van does.
As the other poster says even if you weld the axle to the chassis the act of putting the weight on the drawbar tips the back down and the front up and lifting the axle then does not alter the weight distribution. It may apppear to level the vehicle but running it over a weighbridge will confirm our theory.
Now please tell me what I am not doing with the bags as you have told me I am wrong but never do you say how to do it correctly however impossible it may be.
Otherwise the dialogue is pointless
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