Replacing Front Coil Springs With Airbags

Being the proud owner of the ole texas t 1990 southwind and priding myself in still being mobile enough at 66 to take care of the repairs and upkeep of our home away from home.

Replacing front coil springs with airbags.

Find the air lift kit for your vehicle. The p30 32 chassis maker had no control as to how stiff the front springs should be. You can search this forum for more detail on bags springs. The air bags job is to get in the way of those coils by taking the place of the pitch or the empty space.

It does this by providing the correct ride height thus reducing both sway and bottoming out. On board air compressor systems are not required but make things easy. I tried to do this in a how to format let me know what you think or if you have any quest. Installation done by deflating and twisting and forcing into spring coil center hole.

Also relaced air bags in springs. 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. I am extremely happy with the ride now. Had lean to passenger side berfore replacement.

Supersteer coil springs properly support your front end for a better ride quality eliminating the need for the airbags contained within the oem springs. They are based on actual loaded front axle weight with driver passenger not the gvw. 3 stars ok used to replace front springs on a 98 p30 motorhome chassis. When the pitch decreases with regard to the coil springs on your vehicle that s when you need air bags to help you out.

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. Pad donuts on either end of air bag guided in with long nose. It fills in the spaces and doesn t let your vehicle bow down as much as it would without that extra support. The airbags were used to fudge the ride height to take into account the weight of the house.

Replacing old air bags no the suspension type. 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. At some later production the oem put in stiffer springs. The kits include everything you need to inflate your air bags manually like you would a tire.

Replacing the front air springs in my 1989 winnebago superchief. Coil rite air helper springs work by simply adding air to the air bag just like you would when inflating a tire.