Air bags or new springs?

[RubiNewbCB]

Does anyone have any concerns about the airbags pulling and pushing on the lines when the suspension is flexed, when the airbag doesn't take up the full length of the spring? It seems like there would be a lot of rubbing on the lines (and on whatever paint they are rubbing against). It just seems weird/wrong to me that the bags don't fill up the entire space so everything stays in place at all times, including when the suspension droops. None of the install or review videos I've seen even mention it as a concern or a thought. I'd like to install a set of airbags, either Air Lift or Firestone, but it bothers me looking at it.

I know some have installed the RAM 1500 airbags instead of the Gladiator bags, the Ram's fill up the sripngs completely. There's a post on this forum about it.

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[Badunit]

The post I ran across that used the Ram 1500 bags was lifted 3.5" with Clayton springs. Is there one where someone installed them in stock-height springs? With most of these posts it is hard to tell what suspension set up someone has or what their use case is. Mine is a stock Rubicon suspension and I run empty most of the time. Even when empty the stock rear is much too soft on the road. It does not match the front. It dips and sways like it has a heavy load. I'm sure that is for the off-road articulation but I'm willing to give up some of that.

It appears Airlift sizes their bags according to the spring height when on the ground unloaded. I wonder why they size them that way vs the extended spring length.

 

[RubiNewbCB]

I bought the Gladiator Airlift kit. I have the AEV SC springs 2.5, with a Daystay Spacer beneath them. The Airbag is short by about 2 inches. I installed them the way the instructions said to. They go in with the Airlift spacer on top, it protects the brass ripple and line, they pass through a hole in the Spring perch. I left enough slack in the line to allow for a deflated bag to move up and down or for suspension travel. The line is routed on top of the frame to the rear meats at the frame mounted hitch near the spare on passenger side into a T and then on passenger side behind bumper mount there's a factory tie with an eyelet that I mounted the Schrader valve too.

Right now, I run the bags at 15psi no load. They don't move. I may lower to 10 when it warms up a bit.

I believe max psi is 30.

Here is the kit:

Air Lift 1000 Air Suspension Kit 60830 https://a.co/d/7gEWvTM

Suspension is unsprung in pics.

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