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<blockquote data-quote="hlb3" data-source="post: 1564253" data-attributes="member: 16592"><p>Finally got the replacement air springs for the truck. The old ones are 17 years old and have some pretty good sized weather cracks in them, so I figured I probably should replace them, it would be a bad thing to have one fail while towing the 5th wheel down the freeway. It took 2 months for Firestone to make them, they are discontinued and special order only apparently. What seemed like a simple project turned into a time consuming PITA (like most of my projects). Apparently nobody at the Fontaine factory had heard of anti-seize when they assembled the suspension. The bolts into the aluminum base of the air springs were totally seized, they are socket flat head bolts and stripped out almost immediately, so I had to drill them out.</p><p></p><p>Went and bought new hardware and a can of paint and got everything swapped out (assembled with a generous amount of anti-seize this time). </p><p></p><p>Air spring ready to go in:</p><p><img src="http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170106/40832b136b0117b266ecdb6f136366a8.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Suspension minus air spring:</p><p><img src="http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170106/99cabafb4ff2600f2aaeb303759c2e7b.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>All back together:</p><p><img src="http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170106/765edf9305836401d12a517ca90089db.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hlb3, post: 1564253, member: 16592"] Finally got the replacement air springs for the truck. The old ones are 17 years old and have some pretty good sized weather cracks in them, so I figured I probably should replace them, it would be a bad thing to have one fail while towing the 5th wheel down the freeway. It took 2 months for Firestone to make them, they are discontinued and special order only apparently. What seemed like a simple project turned into a time consuming PITA (like most of my projects). Apparently nobody at the Fontaine factory had heard of anti-seize when they assembled the suspension. The bolts into the aluminum base of the air springs were totally seized, they are socket flat head bolts and stripped out almost immediately, so I had to drill them out. Went and bought new hardware and a can of paint and got everything swapped out (assembled with a generous amount of anti-seize this time). Air spring ready to go in: [IMG]http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170106/40832b136b0117b266ecdb6f136366a8.jpg[/IMG] Suspension minus air spring: [IMG]http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170106/99cabafb4ff2600f2aaeb303759c2e7b.jpg[/IMG] All back together: [IMG]http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170106/765edf9305836401d12a517ca90089db.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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