Air Over Leaf Suspension

For tractors air ride suspensions became the standard many years ago on over the road applications while vocational vehicles often use leaf spring suspensions because of their greater durability.

Air over leaf suspension.

Works for most all applications. This air spring in conjunction with some lower weight rated leaf springs will give your truck suspension the ability to achieve a smoother ride like heavy duty airide when unloaded while still keeping the load. This is a bolt on set of air bag brackets with grade 8 hardware for the upper bracket. The lower bracket uses the leaf spring hardware to bolt on.

Ez flow flat striping and lettering enamels the first and only flat striping enamel. The air spring is then inflated to restore load capacity ride height and spring rate. Leaf spring suspension doesn t usually need much maintenance some retorquing of the leaves but air suspension can and it s more complex. This is a great universal set for truck or car with a flip kit and a side frame mounted leaf spring.

Ridetech s air over leaf system offers a great ride quality and extra load capacity without re engineering your vehicle. What is an r4tech suspension kit. They will eventually need some maintenance to fix any leaks. Lowering is accomplished by removing 1 or 2 leaf springs.

Firestone s r4tech is a patented hybrid air over leaf suspension that provides the ride quality of a full air suspension the axle control of a leaf spring and the ease of installation of a standard leaf spring and ride rite kit.