Changing to air ride cab

You must go buy them a J/yard an buy new air bags to make it worth while

 

Try cabmate

https://www.linkmfg.com/product-lines/cab-suspensions/

 

Cabmate/Link makes the OEM installed ones.

 

I'm not sure the front mounts are different. I looked at a 367 Peterbilt not too long ago and I'm pretty sure the front mounts were the same with the air ride as they are without it. My concern would be destroying the upper rad tank if you have braces running from the firewall to the top rad tank.

 

We just did a cabmate linksys air ride install on a 1987 Pete 377 a month ago.



Works good.

I don’t have the finished photo. I thought I did....

 

Question for you. I just bought a 79 w900a dump truck really good shape. I wanna add the cab mate. Is there a lot to the install. Any wires lines etc that you guys had to extend or any radiator mounts from the cab that had to be modified. Appreciate the feed back as she’s my first truck and build.

 

Mr79w900: sorry for the late reply, the cab mate is a pretty straight forward install.

No modifications to the air lines or tranny cooler.

The holes for the cab mate were already in the crossmember from factory.

Just had to unbolt the rubber cab mount, remove that, unbolt tranny cooler, air lines harness, drop the air ride bracket in and re install.

It was my first time and took most of the day as it was tight to work in that area.

Radiator mounts are still original. Nothing else changed.

We have 2 Peterbilts, one has air ride cab and the one I did didn’t.

So I used that truck to see what should be changed but really don’t see anything.