Air trac vs low air leaf

Primaax.....

 

Yes, it's a Hendrickson clone of a Neway.....

It's been good to me. Sorry Can't help you with the Pete roadie stuff .

 

I have both regular air leaf and air trac. They use the same air bags and ride about the same. They have less suspension travel and don't ride as well as low air leaf. Doing dump truck work with a mixture of highway and off road I honestly can't see much advantage to the air trac. The regular air leaf seems to do just as well off road as the air trac in my experience. The larger the air bag the worse they seem to be about breaking traction off road regardless of the brand of suspension IMO.

 

I run air trac on my old truck. You'll be disappointed in the ride compared to the low air leaf. It might ride as good as the k-w. Emphasis on the might. I had a 88 t-6 and i think it rode better but had more sway. One of the good is that its a very stable suspension. With only a couple inches of travel it should be lol. The other nice thing is that it seems to stay in alignment forever. Im pretty sure if i never had to change bushings here and there it would never need to be aligned. In Ontario its still a common suspension for heavy spec and tanker trucks. You can run into issues with 5th wheel height with them though. I'm 49" high with the lowest pedestal available. That's with 24.5 tires.

 

If memory serves me well there is Air-trac and a variant of Air-trac. The variant has tracking rods from the hanger back to the axle pad. I was told years ago that the setup with tracking rods is rough riding mutha humper.

 

The air trac has the radius rods that you are talking about. It makes it strong and stable but rough riding as you said lol. Without them its the air leaf. Later ones got the big bags and became the low air leaf. Those ones ride nice. My dream is to throw the air trac away as far as possible and go low air leaf and have a nice riding truck for once before I die lol

 

I still believe airtrac came with and without radius rods. The spring leaves on airtrac are much thicker than on airleaf. (I think. It has been too long since I saw an airtrac.)

 

Could be. All the ones I've seen are heavy spec. Maybe that's the difference? Ive been wrong before and will be again I'm sure