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Originally Posted by Bill
This doesn't make sense. Air bags do not remove weight from the axle, but leave it in place. A WDH removes some of the weight, moving it to other axles. Matt is pretty knowledgable. Are you sure you understood him correctly?
Or did he mean "You can add air bags, but thousands of miles with the extra weight will harm the springs"?
Bill
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Bill,
We were talking about the air bags preventing so much weight working the springs up and down. Matt feels that this harms their resiliance. The air bags support much of the weight the springs would have to bear. I am aware that they do not reduce axle weight.
On my older truck I frequently carried an overhead camper that weighed 1450 pounds. It put my weight right at gvwr with a tank of gas two passengers, and some stuff in the camper. w/o the air bags it would have sagged and rocked back and forth on the road. Not safe at all. So...I am used to having the bags in place.
Tom