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Plating Air bags and making air manifolds.

Started by chart1, February 27, 2011, 07:16:28 PM

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thomasinnv

on most buses with airbags suspension the rear are isolated left and right, but the front are tied together both sides.  Otherwise you could end up with a twisted bus.
Some are called, some are sent, some just got up and went.

1998 MCI 102-DL3
Series 60 12.7/Alison B500
95% converted (they're never really done, are they?)

papatony

First if you have a leaking problem you need to fix that first.Your brakes work on air.Second if you replace the leveling valve you will solve the leaning problem. you will be safe and spend a lot less money.

gus

Jim,

No apology necessary, it took me a long time to figure out that leveling valves don't level and that here was only one in front!! Even after I had read it in the manual a truck repairman had to explain it to me after he repaired a valve link and I complained the bus wasn't level when one wheel was sitting in a hole!

Those Lincoln air suspensions are a disaster once the car is a few years old. A rebuilt air suspension on the rear alone costs more than the book value of the car. I often see a saggy Lincoln sitting by the road with a "For Sale" sign on it.

I replaced the rear air shocks on my wife's '89 Cadillac Deville a few years ago. They weren't all that expensive, nothing like Lincolns, but a real pain to change. They aren't isolated, all they do is raise the rear when rear seats and trunk are loaded.
PD4107-152
PD4104-1274
Ash Flat, AR