rear air bag set-up on trailing arms

[shifty]

If you were to sell an entire hardware kit for, say, my SS RE7-200 bags, including that CNC/machined washer, its respective split washer and 4" long bolt, the two rear upper bag bolts (+split washers?) along with the front upper and lower bolts, I would pay $25 for that + the $5 shipping it would cost.

My logic behind this price is, you're saving me trips to the store, you're saving me hunting online, you're saving me 30 minutes of work time in the garage to fab my own, and you're supplying all the parts I need to bag my truck.

I don't want to hunt out the parts, and I personally like the billet piece I see in that writeup more than I would like the look of a steel piece I fabbed that has potential to rust.

Just my 2¢.

FYI - the diameter on that piece is approximately 2.75" round (I measured 2 weeks ago), 3/8" hole (or whatever you use to fit a 3/8-24 bolt) in the dead center, looks like a beveled outer edge, and it is approximately 1/4" thick.

[SCOTI]

Originally Posted by shifty

I don't want to hunt out the parts, and I personally like the billet piece I see in that writeup more than I would like the look of a steel piece I fabbed that has potential to rust.

I'm confident the "steel piece" won't rust any faster than the trailing arm it's connected to .

[shifty]

Originally Posted by SCOTI

I'm confident the "steel piece" won't rust any faster than the trailing arm it's connected to .

Frame and arms will be powdercoated. Washer probably will not be, unless I can get a freebie out of the shop.

PS - I agree with gringoloco on the standalone price. My $25 was just figuring in the other hardware required.

If there's one thing I've noticed, it's that people will pay a reasonable amount extra if they can buy everything in one place. I personally greatly dislike anything that comes without hardware, and has no quick and easy place to find it. Nothing is worse than hitting several hardware stores trying to find the right parts - this is what happened to me when Brothers sent me radiator core support bolts last year - one of the carriage bolts came with the middle two threads mangled (how'd that pass QC?) and it couldn't be repaired using files, and it prevented me from bolting up my core support. I went to every hardware store in town and ended up having to special order it from a warehouse in TX because it was odd-sized.

Point being: Shopping around for hardware might seem like a menial task for some, but others have a pain with it, and buying a 'hardware kit' to solve all mounting problems is invaluable to some of us.