Do you have airbags?

[chily3]

Originally Posted by chily3

How much air pressure does he have in the bags? I know they are good to 100 pounds. Hopefully for mine can get by with about 30 pounds or so. (truck sags about 3 inches when hooked up) Also if I would have used another leaf or overload shocks that would affect the ride also. More on this when we get out with the trailer in the next month or so.

Been using them for awhile now major improvement. Running 35 pounds lot less sag and handling is good. More solid over bumps.

[gaer01]

Take a look at timberin.

[Pirate]

I've been running Firestone airbags on my 2010 Silverado crew cab, dualie, Duramax almost since the day I got it. Have a 2014 Voltage Epic 3800 Toyhauler. So running 50 psi.

Used a 48" level in the bed, trailer hooked up, to determine the pressure in the air bags. 50 psi has the bed level going down the road.

Don't have the onboard compressor, so set them manually. Don't bleed of for months.

Pirate

[Bryon4]

I would check that the WDH is properly set up and installed .Check the manufacturer of the hitch for proper set up and installation. In addition to doing this, I installed a set of heavy duty shocks with coil springs, which seemed to help. Good luck.

[persistent]

I see here a lot of folks like air bags. They must be a good solution.
There is a U-Tube video on the different loading results between load levelers and air bags. I can't find it now. The loading expert goes through all the math to show the differences using industrial scales to measure loading on all the wheels.
He lost me. I have forgotten too much over the last 50 years to follow some of the details. I remember these conclusions:
1) Load leveling maximizes the performance of the tow vehicle for travel trailers, but may be less than optimum for utility trailers because TT weights do not vary as much as much as utility trailers do.
2) The hitch will drop when the trailer is attached. The key is to get the front to drop the same amount. This maximizes the tongue weight a vehicle can carry and preserves as much suspension performance as is possible. Air bags substantially load the rear axle. Front axle load increase a little with air bags, but front capacity goes unused.
Note: These conclusions are my summary of the results. They are not his words.
Paul Bristol

[Local150]

I have a 29 ft Denali pulled by a Silverado 1500. Pulks it ok,, but had some sag too so put bags on. Made it a bunch better. I chose Air Lift too but without the compressor,, I pump them up if I am going to pull 5ver and if not let some out. I have co.pressor at home if I am not going to use trailer for awhile,, deflate, if gonna use it regularly just leave them pumped up. They work great for me,, much more relaxed pulling it now