Air bags for pickup

[efgh]

My 3/4 ton 2011 ford pickup squats down in the back if I use the fifth wheel hitch or hitch on the machinery trailer when loaded. I need air bags and was wondering what brand of bags too get, any too stay away from? Thanks ahead of time.

[Hafnutz]

I have Firestone Ride Rite on my Ram. They were super easy to install. No drilling except to mount air lines. Took about an hour by myself. I left the wheels on and crawled underneath. I think any of them are good. They all mount about the same way. I put my air lines in the bed next to the Trailer plug I mounted in the side wall. I can plug in my 12 volt compressor and change the pressure easily. Don't put on tee in the lines and connect them together. If you do when you go around a curve one will compress and send all the air to the other bag throwing off the balance.

[dougger222]

The 99 F250 has Firestones which were installed about 9 years ago. They have worked great.

The 99 F350 has Air Lifts which were installed about 6 years ago. The on board air compressor and dual guages were also installed, it's a nice way to go.

The Air Lifts have a lot of small cracks on the bags while the Firestones look pretty good. The dually gets a lot more towing use so could have something to do with the bags being in poor shape.

Do do over again would have put Firestones on the dually with the Air lift pump because the Firestone pump had only one gauge.

[JOHNBIGDOG]

My 3/4 ton 2011 ford pickup squats down in the back if I use the fifth wheel hitch or hitch on the machinery trailer when loaded. I need air bags and was wondering what brand of bags too get, any too stay away from? Thanks ahead of time.

I remember reading a bullitin about this a while back. For did this on purpose to provide a better unloaded ride, but then when loaded, the truck squats, and rests into the actual heavy duty portion of the springs.