Add Ride Rite bags to helper leafed rear end?

[Stromtrooper]

Firestone Ride Rite bags are arriving today: Do people add Ride Rite airbags to atop the helper leaf spring or use only one or the other (in my case, remove helper spring, then install bags)?

Reason for asking: 2007 Tacoma TRD with existing helper springs is bucking too much on I-5 where the concrete segments are bumpy with 4 Wheel Eagle camper in-bed.

I am new to the forum, so please pardon me if there is a better place to ask this question, or an obvious existing answer that I am missing. Happy wheeling & thanks for your input!

 

[buckland]

I have air bags as well as added a 4th leaf. Though the ride is much improved I don't think it will eliminate the bucking caused by cemented segment roads... The only way to deal with that I have found is by slightly changing the speed constantly so that a rhythm does not build. This is a problem they used to have on suspension bridges that similar to 'wave patterns' caused some bridges in Tennessee to oscillate and collapse. If you ever have walked across a rope bridge with a group you know what I mean... one must not allow a pattern to develop in the sway action ... gotta walk 'out of step'. I hate the cement roads and I have to say the worst in the country are in Pennsylvania (they are tearing them all up).

 

[billharr]

+1 on changing the speed to stop the bucking. On our last across the country trip hit a section of road that I had to be above 70 or below 55. Glad I do not live around any roads like that.

 

[Stromtrooper]

I am from old Pennsyltucky, now in Washington- where I bet are roads are a close second to last. Thanks for the tips on the bronco bouncing!!

 

[Stromtrooper]

We did new Bilstein 5100 shocks on all 4, plus Firestone Ride Rite HD airbag helper springs over the bolt on helper spring kit, and the bucking is 90% gone and truck is level and handles way better.