by NowForThe5th on Fri Feb 21, 2020 5:20 pm
No. Airbags have been a major contributing factor in cases of chassis bending in many dual cab utes - not just Triton.
The chassis is designed to bear weight at the ends of the leaf spring. Adding an airbag moves this to the centre of the arch and effectively creates a truss. Without flexibility in the leaf, load is transferred forward, usually to a point near where the chassis turns up behind the cab. With a high impact load, made worse by towing, the chassis can bend or break, since this part of the chassis is not designed to take these kinds of loads.
Airbags do have a place, even with leaf spring suspensions, but relying on them to take a significant part of the load is not the correct way, even in the MR which does have a beefed up section of chassis compared to ML/MN.
Upgraded suspension, even a helper spring, is a much better choice.
Different story with a Patrol or Pajero with coil rears. In these cars the load point does not change when an airbag is fitted.
Chris
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