Looks clean, those bags look like they fit the factory coil bucket pretty nice.The out board shock system also looks sick,I have done something similar to that shock configuration in the past. Pretty nice clearance gainsas well GOOD JOB.

 

thanks Mike -- it's a work in progress and has cost 3 times as much as it should have with all the trial and error -- but you can see how simple it really is. I'm suprised I haven't seen any more (I know Lynch did one, obviously Predator's, a friend started the mod with his humvee -- those are all I know of). It really rides nice and the variable height is sweet. Still kind of testing them and every few months changing/improving something. I'd love to come visit you and pick your brain about the bumpstops. If you're ever in the Burbank area...

 

RonB I have been following your airbag work in progress and am very impress... I was wondering if you were going to come out with a kit once completed?

 

for sure Ron, every now and then I am in your area and I would like to see that truck in person.

 

Mike, stop by any time.

as far as a kit -- I'm not really qualified to put something like that together but I might be able to point you in the right direction as far as fab work and parts. Plus it really wasn't my original idea. I know Lynch did one (late 90's?), Predator did one, my old mechanic from Unlimited Offroad (Billy) bagged his humvee -- though he didn't really finish the project (to my knowledge). There's has to be at least one more I missed. It is a rare mod, but a cool one -- not sure why more don't do it? I'd say most of my ideas came from Billy, advice/fab work from Mike Sabrese, airbag install/hooking everything up from a local hot rod shop. A kit would save alot of headaches/time/and maybe some $$. Hmmmm?

 

Yeah, kit would definately save me and other H1 owners that wish to do this mod. Ontop of that you will be making money...
I'd rather pay a bit of a mark up and get it right the first time than doing trial and error and wasting money on errors...

 

Ron, not trying to be nosy but if you did it right the first time without the trial and error what would you guess the installation would cost?

 

off the top of my head, I'd guess about $5k. There's nearly $3k in parts alone -- bags, compressor, tank, lines, fittings, switches, gauges (still looking for good ones), shocks, a plethora of limit straps, and an inflatable sheep (for when the wife leaves you for spending too much money and time on the truck).

rb

 

In that case I would have to buy the "party sheep" first because I don't think my wife would stick around to the 5K mark. LOL she won't even come in the garage when I am working on something. Smart lady.

 

Nice well I am in Washington state in the Olympia area. I like road trips although I never quite make it further south than San Jose but you never know.