A question about something I've seen.

[douce92x]

I saw on Trucks a while ago a Dodge that was lifted and tricked out on 35's. He also had an airbag system that on top of his lift kit that would lift the truck even more. Would this give him more flex, less chance of rubbing, or just for show? The reason I'm asking is could it be done to a X, and would it improve the offroad ability? It would be cool to have the larger tires for on road looks, then the raise it for offroad ability. Thanks, Andrew

 

[Hokie]

Was it that big wild painted dodge that could smoke its Swamper Boggers? That was pretty cool how they could raise/lower the vehicle that much, and the steps that opened/closed with the door were trick!

 

[douce92x]

Thats the one. I was thinking of something like that for an X. Most of the trails I do are pretty mellow but it would be sweet to have an Elocker, and lift it to big dawg status with a few switches.

 

[zensius]

I would guess that what's happening is the air bags are force artiulating the springs to near full extension. This would in effect eliminate you flex for wheeling. I'm sure you could get a couple of inches maybe. Like the late model X's that do this. Seems to be more of a liablilty than anything else.

 

[douce92x]

If thats the case is there a way to have an airbagged body lift? Andrew

 

[zensius]

Um, yeah, anything's possible. But you have to understand the tremendous strain that's put on your body spacers. Imagine the body of you truck balancing atop half inflated airbags. It would be sliding all over. Now you could have a canister within a canister, like a shock to both support torsionally and raise the vehicle. Now you're into magor fab work for all eight body mount points.

 

[james t]

this is becoming fairly common. the bags are OVER the coils, and usually very long bags are ran. sometimes, the bags will be stacked. it doesnt look very offroadable to me, but ive never seen the setup on the trail. usually its on big lifted "streeter 4x4's". like chrome shocks, its just a showoff thing. big $$$ too.

 

[Texplorer]

And plus you run the risk of puncturing a bag with a stick or rock when off-road.