torsion bar air bag susp?

[71tahoe]

Has anyone done or does anyone know of a bagged torsion bar front suspension drop?

[Frizzle Fry]

You want to keep the bars and run bags with them, or convert to a coil front end and run bags?

[71tahoe]

Gotta keep the bars due to 4wd. I've seen something on blazinlow.com that airbagit.com is supposed to have (porkchop) but couldn't find it on their site. I've not heard a lot of good things about AIM so it may be a blessing in disguise.

[Frizzle Fry]

Interesting. That's the first I've seen of it. One thing to keep in mind is that the bags will add compression "length" to the existing torsion bars. It will be like running a taller spring if it were coil. Make sense? So I would imagine that you would want to run heavy bags so that they are there for height adjustment only and let the torsion bars act as the springs.

[71tahoe]

I also thought about hydros to adjust the height and still let the bars do their job. Another solution I found included welding bags to the top a-arm and fabbing an upper mount. That upper arm and ball joint weren't designed to bear the weight of the truck so I'm tossing that one. I think I like the other idea using a coilover. In this case use a shockwave or maybe extend a shockwave and fab/relocate the upper mount. It may require a tubular upper a-arm. I'll probably do this and a mild Z on the frame to keep the ball joint angle in a good range.

[cajundragger]

is the truck 4wd?

If not you can yank the bars and use torsion bar air bag brackets...do it all the time on nissans and toyotas

[71tahoe]

Yep. 4wd has to stay. I've never done a 4 wheel burnout but I think it's going to be REAL fun.