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Old 03-27-2009, 09:16
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They have been doing Air Bag suspensions in Iceland for quite some time with good success. Keep in mind its not always about articulation there but mostly about floating above the snow pack. Spent 7 years there and saw quite a few unique rigs.

The most unique thing was not the air bag suspension but a steering column setup that would steer based off of GPS input. Once again these are things that you can get away with in Iceland because there are no trees (ha ha ha) to run into.
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I have been toying around with the idea of air bags on my bobbed deuce. I was mainly doing it for the lift part of it, not so much as the ride. The rear would be easy to do but there is not alot of room under the front.
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I own a Kenworth with the 8 bag kw airride suspension. They ride good but they are not good offroad. Airride suspension would work much better on a bobbed deuce though. Peterbilt and some others have toyed with front airride but it is a hybrid setup. they use a single leaf spring to locate the axle then add 1 or 2 airbags to up the capacity if the suspension.
I think that my deuce rides better than my airride truck. it is a little rough on some of the big bumps when empty, but thats the tradoff with an offroad suspension. The biggest improvement on a deuce ride would be an airride seat. If setup right they ride much better than the springride seats.
Hope this answers most questions. this is also much cheeper than changing out the suspension.
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