4- link air suspension - Competition Diesel.Com

srt cummins · 01-14-2013, 06:55 PM

Truck is a 2004 2500 looking for better ride and more towing capability. I was looking at this kit Dealer_E-Mail_Ad_120409 does anyone have any experience with a set up like this?

dieseldoc09 · 02-21-2016, 01:25 PM

Interested in this too. Was looking at the Kelderman set up but this is priced a little more reasonably

Marq92 · 02-21-2016, 08:59 PM

Airbag it doesn't have good reviews. I would go with kelderman, fab a kit yourself(Tate on here has a really good thread on it for his 2nd gen), or Carli Long Travel Airbags(they have a kit for stock springs and another for their full progressive leafs).

STROKETHISF350 · 02-21-2016, 09:03 PM

My truck had a kelderman air ride on it when I bought it. What a ginormous overpriced piece of $hit.

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1-5-3-6-2-4 · 02-23-2016, 01:39 AM

I got a radius arm panhard link rear suspension fabbed up for my trucks rear end. On 8" 10,000lb Firestone bags. Works pretty good.

mike_belben · 08-13-2016, 11:56 PM

You dont want bags and a 4 link, there is no roll resistance to the bags so it will require massive sway bar to counteract body roll. How big rigs almost all do it is to put the axle in torsion when swah occurs. Note that the housings are all bolted solid to rigid or semi rigid trailing members and have no external sway bar? Thats because the trailing arm constrains the axle in a way that body roll would have to twist the axle tube. The systems that have pivot at the axle joint use swaybars because the pivot frees the axle from this torsional constraint and allows body roll.

Trailing arms and a panhard are the simplest way to go. Hell you could cut your leaf pack off 10" behind the axle, clamp on a bag seat to whats left and add a panhard, would work fine if you can package a bag with proper characteristics at the ride height you want.

01-14-2013, 06:55 PM	#1
srt cummins Name: srt cummins Title: Too Much Time Status: Not Here Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Artesia Member`s Gallery Posts: 1,788	4- link air suspension Truck is a 2004 2500 looking for better ride and more towing capability. I was looking at this kit Dealer_E-Mail_Ad_120409 does anyone have any experience with a set up like this? __________________ 04.5 cummins slow poke 05 1500 ten year project

02-21-2016, 01:25 PM	#2
dieseldoc09 Name: dieseldoc09 Title: Green Behind the Ears Status: Not Here Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Madison, WI Member`s Gallery Posts: 68	Interested in this too. Was looking at the Kelderman set up but this is priced a little more reasonably __________________ 2003 Quad Cab 4x4 w/95 12 valve swap, II Phatshaft 64 over HT60, built and bench pump at 500cc, 5x.014 injectors

02-21-2016, 08:59 PM	#3
Marq92 Name: Marq92 Title: Too Much Time Status: Not Here Join Date: May 2012 Member`s Gallery Posts: 952	Airbag it doesn't have good reviews. I would go with kelderman, fab a kit yourself(Tate on here has a really good thread on it for his 2nd gen), or Carli Long Travel Airbags(they have a kit for stock springs and another for their full progressive leafs). __________________ 2001.0 QCLB 3500 4x4 3.55 Toyo M-55 255/85R16 Brown's/Goerend 48RE sonnax shafts/maxed count Alto clutches Carli/Deaver 3.0 EMF BJ's PSC 6 bolt box Synergy steering TheRetroShop HID projector retrofit VLED's DC Power 180A alternator W-T ground mod ISSPRO EV2's

02-21-2016, 09:03 PM	#4
STROKETHISF350 Name: STROKETHISF350 Title: Too Much Time Status: Not Here Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: HARFORD COUNTY MARYLAND Member`s Gallery Posts: 1,253	My truck had a kelderman air ride on it when I bought it. What a ginormous overpriced piece of $hit. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk __________________ 06 ram 3500 CCLB dually l 100% fleece injectors l ppe dual fuelers l Hamilton 188/220 l 103# valve springs l ported & oringed head l arp 425s l he 351 over 475 built by me l efi live l fass l full billet 48re built by me

02-23-2016, 01:39 AM	#5
1-5-3-6-2-4 Name: 1-5-3-6-2-4 Title: Low-Tech Redneck Status: Not Here Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Okotoks, AB Member`s Gallery Posts: 940	I got a radius arm panhard link rear suspension fabbed up for my trucks rear end. On 8" 10,000lb Firestone bags. Works pretty good. __________________ Luke --------------------------------------------------- '06 Ford F450 CCSB Lariate 37" Toyos Ppump 24v '94 Dodge 2500 2wd RCLB 12v auto '73 Camaro RS/Z-28 - soon LS3 stroked and forged

08-13-2016, 11:56 PM	#6
mike_belben Name: mike_belben Title: Green Behind the Ears Status: Not Here Join Date: Aug 2011 Member`s Gallery Posts: 96	You dont want bags and a 4 link, there is no roll resistance to the bags so it will require massive sway bar to counteract body roll. How big rigs almost all do it is to put the axle in torsion when swah occurs. Note that the housings are all bolted solid to rigid or semi rigid trailing members and have no external sway bar? Thats because the trailing arm constrains the axle in a way that body roll would have to twist the axle tube. The systems that have pivot at the axle joint use swaybars because the pivot frees the axle from this torsional constraint and allows body roll. Trailing arms and a panhard are the simplest way to go. Hell you could cut your leaf pack off 10" behind the axle, clamp on a bag seat to whats left and add a panhard, would work fine if you can package a bag with proper characteristics at the ride height you want.