Air Bag working hard.

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Yeah and that is just the Pacific Hwy...lol

I have a slide-on which weighs about 1 tonne fully loaded on my 75 series 'Cruiser and I fitted the PolyAir bellows type bags a while back. Having done several long treks including The Simpson and I can only say good things about them. No sway or body roll, truck sits level and it has never bottomed out.... all good.

Rob.

Gday Mark

I've used air bags on truck and coaches for many years, just the best system.

We fitted an air bag rear end onto an Iszuzu for tour work a few years ago, I did both Cape York and Central Australia with it over the season, just great, but you must use the correct shocks, eg Powerdown or EFS units which are designed for this purpose.

The only problems we had were as mentioned, shocks and a spiral crack on the axle housing, this was fixed by putting a torsion bar from the top of the axle housing to chassis.

I personally believe that the late model coil suspended vehicles are ideal for air bag conversion, if done properly.

Off course the major benefit is that you get no spring rebound effect which courses major wear and breakages.

Cheers