MuntCuffin
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Got a 2011 F250, cc, with a knapheide service body on it. The stock springs are saggy, soft, and leave the truck wallering around on the road.
The options I'm throwing around are, stock springs with bags, or deaver springs (or custom springs from a local spring shop) and bags.
The service body is full, and will have a 30 gallon compressor and a genny mounted to the bed. So I was gonna go with the 7500 lb bags.
Primary usage for the truck is a mobile fix shit/fabricate shit/wire shit shop.
Secondary usage would be a remote pit truck at KoH.
Bags hold up to bouncing around in fields to get to broke dick equipment or going over whoops and shit in JV?
Any bonus in replacing the spring packs with bag installation or just run stock? Weight won't change all that much, its always going to be a heavy pig. Doesn't tow that much, yet. Chance it will pull around an oil evac/dispeser trailer with equipment and 6 to 700 gallons of oil on board.
Also, as far as air source, my plan was to run the gas driven air compressor to an underbody 5 gallon reserve tank from a semi, plumbed with a checkvalve so the reserve tank won't bleed back to the compressor. The reserve tank will go to load leveling valves, one on each side (also stolen off a semi), then to the bags. The bags are 100 psi. Compressor is 175. I'd rather charge the reserve tank to 175 for the extra reserve. Whats needed to keep the bags from ever seeing anything over 100 psi? Just a regular old regulator off the reserve tank prior to load valves?
The options I'm throwing around are, stock springs with bags, or deaver springs (or custom springs from a local spring shop) and bags.
The service body is full, and will have a 30 gallon compressor and a genny mounted to the bed. So I was gonna go with the 7500 lb bags.
Primary usage for the truck is a mobile fix shit/fabricate shit/wire shit shop.
Secondary usage would be a remote pit truck at KoH.
Bags hold up to bouncing around in fields to get to broke dick equipment or going over whoops and shit in JV?
Any bonus in replacing the spring packs with bag installation or just run stock? Weight won't change all that much, its always going to be a heavy pig. Doesn't tow that much, yet. Chance it will pull around an oil evac/dispeser trailer with equipment and 6 to 700 gallons of oil on board.
Also, as far as air source, my plan was to run the gas driven air compressor to an underbody 5 gallon reserve tank from a semi, plumbed with a checkvalve so the reserve tank won't bleed back to the compressor. The reserve tank will go to load leveling valves, one on each side (also stolen off a semi), then to the bags. The bags are 100 psi. Compressor is 175. I'd rather charge the reserve tank to 175 for the extra reserve. Whats needed to keep the bags from ever seeing anything over 100 psi? Just a regular old regulator off the reserve tank prior to load valves?