When the trailing arm support broke it also caused the bases of my air bags to break. I didn't discover
that at first. The lucky thing is that when I changed my air bags I still had the old bases so today I
repaired two of them using the old bases.
:o
As a side note: Sorry, never seen that level of corrosion.
I have old bases that are fine. Second picture is the repaired bag.
Very common for people to comment.....yet not fully read the original post....lol
That's incredible Peter. I often wish I wasn't so prone to keeping parts I've removed but your experience does nothing to fix my own illness 😀. I am glad for you that you had spare parts to fix the broken base. That does always feel encouraging.
'Tis better to have and not need than to need and not have....
I, too, stash take-offs for backup use or in case someone on the forum might need it in the future.
This is very funny, because I remember how it pained me so to throw away my old airbags....because "the metal part is still good" LOL
Just sayon but your coach will ride a whole lot better if you went with the FSD shocks.
The only reason I still had the bases is I threw them in the aluminum scrape pile and I have never gotten
around to selling the scrap.
I can identify with that. I think that I have 8 of those old bags. One did come in handy when I had a coach that the front wheels were about 6 inches deep in sugar sand and I couldn't get a jack anywhere to raise them up. I used one with fittings for my air and was able to raise it enough to get the wheels off and back on.
Now I will say, that was one of the most ingenious strokes of improvisation I have ever seen. I was impressed!!!