Air suspension offers better ride quality and absorbs bumps in the road better than standard suspensions. But is it the best option long term?

This story appears in the January/February 2011 issue of Equipment & Maintenance Update, a supplement to the Jan. 17 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. Air suspensions ...

Air springs have only been part of the mainstream rodding scene for about a decade, yet they're already almost as common as dropped axles and whitewall tires. This is not too surprising, considering ...

The trucks sold in today’s consumer market are tougher than commercial trucks just a decade back, with the strongest pickups comfortably hauling nearly 8,000 pounds. The key downside to those new ...

An air spring suspension provides a better ride quality than their steel spring counterparts, but isn’t quite as bulletproof when it comes to wear and tear. Air springs, which should be inspected at ...

Just a week ago, we invited you to come along and learn about air suspension systems. Our friend Jason Fenske at Engineering Explained created a video discussing what air suspension is and how it ...

One of the biggest, most significant shifts in automotive suspension systems over the past several decades has been the explosion in popularity of high-tech active suspensions. From air springs to ...

The outside of the air spring can suffer from abrasion if it rubs against any other suspension part because of misalignment or other parts out of their normal positions, like a broken shock. Too ...

Every once in a while a new product crops up that significantly impacts the classic truck hobby. Certainly the availability of fiberglass bodies, reproduction bed assemblies, and reproduction frames ...

When it comes to lowering a lowrider to the pavement, hydraulic suspensions have been installed on mostly all lowriders traditionally now for over 50 years. When that era or history of custom-applied ...

What Is An Air Suspension? How Do Air Suspension Systems Work? How does ride height affect spring rate? From a mechanical standpoint, you would want higher spring rates as the vehicle is lowered to ...

Pneumatic suspension, more commonly called air suspension, has been around since its first patented design the early 1900s. There are many questions about its existence and how it relates to towing.