Inside tire on the drives really bad

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  1. abyliks

    abyliks Road Train Member

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    Didn’t even notice that was a pos 8 bag, definitely check bushings
     
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  3. Long FLD

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    I never had any issues with it. It was on three different t8’s I drove and it was on the w9 I had. My old boss had the t8’s set up to level side to side and that was nice running the curvy roads in the mountains with lumber stacked to 14ft.
     
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  4. abyliks

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    bushings wear out quick and the ride like a lumber wagon, only slightly better then camelback…

    mine actually was converted from 2 to 1 all they did was fight each other
     
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  5. AModelCat

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    It's not a terrible suspension as long as it's the 400 and not 200. The 200 was junk.
     
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  6. Long FLD

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    I’ve only had experience with the 400 and I liked it for what we were doing. Cliff had them set up the same as his log trucks. You could follow another truck through the curves and ours weren’t leaning near as much.

    Somewhere along the line the W9 I owned was converted to 400 and it was way more stable hauling cattle than the AirGlide on my FLD.

    Can’t speak to the bushings on the T8’s because I didn’t worry about the maintenance. And I only had my junk W9 for about a year so I didn’t touch the suspension
     
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