Thread: Air bag suspension suppliers

Originally Posted by Ranga

I just read a thread on another forum discussing airbag use. It was claimed that the Firestone coil-rite airbags are for temporary load levelling, and not designed for constant use.

Given I will have the load on most of the time for 12 months, I'm not sure if they're the right bags to use, or if I should choose another type.

I'll chat to AirBagMan and see. If he's providing advice and his prices aren't too over the top, I'll give him the job.

Talk to Brett, I spoke with him Heaps about the front bags when I did mine, he now has lower pistons that accomodate for all the angular changes required, as opposed to when we were both setting up, shimming and redrilling etc

Just road tested my Firestone bags on some real rough south west roads and thay are tops. Your choice but when you need to load your vehicle air bags rule. I now know why D3 owners give us ****.

Allan

After too many failures with EAS on my '93 Rangie I decided to go back to coils.
The short of this is I have four air bags in the shed and all the comps etc still in the rangie, including a manifold set up to inflate the air bags.

I am in the Hervey Bay area if interested.


Cheers,
Mike

PS The air bags from new did about 10,000kms before I switched back.

Ended up going with a Firestone kit from AirbagMan. Incidentally, the kit is named CR5028 by them, but has 6010 stamped on the bag. Probably twice the price as the US, but I couldn't seem to find them.

I must say, the kit also came with a spacer for the bottom and a plate for the top of the bags.

All in all, I'm fairly happy with the kit. Also decided to put some new King Springs in while I was at it.

Originally Posted by onemore

After too many failures with EAS on my '93 Rangie I decided to go back to coils.
The short of this is I have four air bags in the shed and all the comps etc still in the rangie, including a manifold set up to inflate the air bags.

I am in the Hervey Bay area if interested.


Cheers,
Mike

PS The air bags from new did about 10,000kms before I switched back.

Hi there, do you still have the airbags etc??

Originally Posted by Ranga

Ended up going with a Firestone kit from AirbagMan. Incidentally, the kit is named CR5028 by them, but has 6010 stamped on the bag. Probably twice the price as the US, but I couldn't seem to find them.

I must say, the kit also came with a spacer for the bottom and a plate for the top of the bags.

All in all, I'm fairly happy with the kit. Also decided to put some new King Springs in while I was at it.

I've just received my set of Firestones as in Ranga's post. Mine is a 90 though and with full touring setup the rear mudflaps are perilously close to the blacktop. With more than a year waranty left I'm not playing with the suspension yet, hence the airbag helper arrangement.

My question is this: the kit came with a very tidy looking top protector/ spacer that serves to keep the air hose nice and centre. I've not had the Puma's rear coils out yet, but on 300 Tdi's there is a retainer bar that keeps the coil fixed to the axle. Do you need some sort of protection for the underside of the airbag (axle side)? Nothing came with the kit for the 90, so is the bag strong enough to sit on top of the new bolts ( supplied with the kit) or does minimum recommended 5 psi cause enough "kick" from the sidewalks to keep it from damaging itself on the bottom?

Advice/ opinions will be much appreciated

My Airbagman kit came with bottom plastic spacers about 2" thick. In addition to protecting the bags, on my 130 the extra height of the spacers would be a necessity for the correct functioning of the bags.

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Ranga,

The 90 obviously has significantly smaller and shorter coils, so there's no bottom spacer. That's why I'm a bit concerned with the bottom rubbing on possible rough bits at the bottom of the coil.

I think I might give airbagman a call and see what's up...