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Gen 2 rear is TOO lightly sprung! needs airbags
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<blockquote data-quote="Renomaan" data-source="post: 1132733" data-attributes="member: 22519"><p><strong>Custom Airbag install on GEN2</strong></p><p></p><p>I bought a tongue weight scale and my trailer is at 850 pounds, I also had about 400 pounds of wood in the bed, 4 people in the truck and about 200 pounds of supplies in the trailer at time of worst pic showing compression. Even still! I hauled this same rig in addition to two large kayaks on the thule rack on a smaller Tacoma for over 2000 miles without issue.</p><p></p><p>That said, I installed some bags, had to make my own mounts as noone has a set for the Raptor yet.</p><p></p><p>From what Ive read the 014 bags were cylindrical in design and always kept upward pressure which caused bad ride and guys took them off. They also limited the suspension drop on jumping (which I don't do). I used Bellows style bags.</p><p></p><p>I came up with a pretty decent design using RideRite bags, which have internal Jounce bumpers so you can run them at 0 pressure. I used centering cups so when the suspension is unloaded the bottom of the bag isnt attached (actually has about 8 inches from bott of bag to furthest axle drop point), when the truck is loaded, the bottom of the bags sit and center in the cups. I placed the compressor components behind the front fender above the mudskirt, fit great! So far works great! I need to do a few more measurements and dry runs with various loads before I do a write up but here are a few pics> Note pic of truck level , the bags have 10 psi in them. The new bags jounce position reduce travel only by 3" from where old jounce bottomed out.-as said-future write up coming.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]86881[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]86882[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]86883[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]86884[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]86885[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]86886[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]86887[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]86888[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Renomaan, post: 1132733, member: 22519"] [b]Custom Airbag install on GEN2[/b] I bought a tongue weight scale and my trailer is at 850 pounds, I also had about 400 pounds of wood in the bed, 4 people in the truck and about 200 pounds of supplies in the trailer at time of worst pic showing compression. Even still! I hauled this same rig in addition to two large kayaks on the thule rack on a smaller Tacoma for over 2000 miles without issue. That said, I installed some bags, had to make my own mounts as noone has a set for the Raptor yet. From what Ive read the 014 bags were cylindrical in design and always kept upward pressure which caused bad ride and guys took them off. They also limited the suspension drop on jumping (which I don't do). I used Bellows style bags. I came up with a pretty decent design using RideRite bags, which have internal Jounce bumpers so you can run them at 0 pressure. I used centering cups so when the suspension is unloaded the bottom of the bag isnt attached (actually has about 8 inches from bott of bag to furthest axle drop point), when the truck is loaded, the bottom of the bags sit and center in the cups. I placed the compressor components behind the front fender above the mudskirt, fit great! So far works great! I need to do a few more measurements and dry runs with various loads before I do a write up but here are a few pics> Note pic of truck level , the bags have 10 psi in them. The new bags jounce position reduce travel only by 3" from where old jounce bottomed out.-as said-future write up coming. [ATTACH=full]86881[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]86882[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]86883[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]86884[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]86885[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]86886[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]86887[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]86888[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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