air bags or blocking

huhta99

huhta99

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what is your take blocking the rear or using bage

what works better Ive got ari bags right know :poke:
 
i like and use blocks. you know that what ever hight you put them at there is going to be no give in them.$.02
 
blocks are so freakin easy, and cost nothing if you find the steel. Minus some wire, argon, and time of course.
 
dont know if i will have the time this week work the next two days what did u do rod just make them go whare the shocks wen't
 
I had blocks then went to air and I would have to say that blocks are better for my truck, air you can get a bounce I have seen that on a few trucks but some guys have good luck with air. Blocks are easy to make just like Frog said easy.
 
maybe i can fined the goods and do it saterday be for the pulls thanks guys:bow::Cheer:
 
blocks go in place of your factory bumpstops (who needs 'em anyway) i use 2" square tube and a peice of flat stock on top with holes and bolts to go thru bumpstop bolt holes with wingnuts for fast easy install/removal. I tack weld the bolts to the flatstock and the square tube rests on the bumpstop perches on the springpack. I have mine raise the back end 1-2" so you actually have to jack the back end up to put them in, then it rests on the blocks. Don't even try to drive on the street that way and go slow through the pits with 'em they will beat you to death!!!

Cheap, simple, very effective VS. expensive bags that will still have some flex/give in 'em. Granted, bags have that nice convenience of hit a switch to air up and another to air down, but if you break one or collapse one its possible it won't be warrantied (we install 'em at work) because they were mostly not made for sled pulling! haha i just don't see 'em workin as good as blocks for pulling. And, bags DO have a weight rating, i'm not sure if sled pulling would really exceed that or not, i kinda think it wouldn't really but i don't know.

Go with blocks! You'll be amazed at the difference!!!
 
from what I have noticed air bags in the rear tend to bounce a little. Earlier this year at Mercer Pa, most of the truck that had bouncing issues were running bags. Both top trucks were running blocks$.02
If you think about it it makes sence. A solid steel block to keep you from bouncing, or a rubber bag filled with "X" ammount of air to meet hitch height. When the sled pulls down on the bags, it has no place to go, but to bounce to a point. Grant it this problem can be solved, but would take a lot of time, and trial and error.
 
I have access to big truck air bags, anyone ever try those? I thought I saw a set of the "Big Bad Dodge" a while ago.

-Dustin-
 
i max my bags for air and i don't thinck i'm coming down in the rear that much
 
I use axel blocks, but some rules say you can not use blocks but can use air bags. I say blocks are best but bags are better then nothing.
 
I was gonna build some blocks, but guys told me that you shouldn't use them without traction bars. I just got stiffer springs installed before last years pulls because my stock springs were toast. Look at the video in my sig, truck hardly sags the way it is.
 
around here you have to have some suspension travel unless you are in outlaw diesel. i mine set up for 2 inches of travel. that is what the require in hot street.
 
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