Basics of truck short crew 1500 4wd sitting at 3/5 on a MCG drop and purchased airlift 59209 bag kit.

In the rear I have a MCG flip kit, lowering hangers, and 4" lift shackles set at 4" to hold the *** end perfectly level. I need these bags for towing purposes.

When trying to install as per the instructions the bags are too short. If the upper frame bracket is held in place where it should be the bags need about 2.5 inches longer to give proper suspension travel wo damaging the bag.

Yes I inverted the upper brackets. With the tool installed to center the bracket and space it properly for the correct height I have exactly half of the upper bracket hanging down below the lower most edge of the frame.

I think I need longer bags any ideas are welcome and I was trying to use my night productively since I gotta stay up all night so I can sleep all day and go to work tomorrow night. AAAARGH 4 hours to go before I can go to bed and my drop bags screwed my night. dammit.

 

Are your jackstands under the axle, or frame rails? If under the rails, its most likely letting the axle hang too low.

I am about to put this same exact kit on my truck too.

 

Copy, paste of my install post, maybe something in it will help you. I looked at the install instructions and it seems pretty straight forward. Maybe the pics in my post will help you.

Got them installed tonight, install was pretty easy except for one of the bolts for the upper bracket. Youve got a little bitty *** hole to put a wrench or ratchet through. THe angle makes a wrench pretty useless, luckily Ive got a swivel head 3/8 ratchet that I was able to work in there. With 10psi(min recommended) in the bags it raised the *** end about half an inch. Once I get all my goodies installed for towing Ill do a thread with all the part numbers and pics. Wiring up an aftermarket trailer brake controller is a bit more entailed than past year models that were plug and play with a harness. Sorry for the dark pics, I finished about 30 minutes ago so its dark.
Before I primed the bags and attached the air line

At ride condition

I mounted the air lines 2" off the license plate light since there isnt any metal behind the plastic there and its damn near a straight shot over the frame and to the top of the air bag. Didnt even need to use any zip ties to keep the line where it needs to be.


Im going to pick up 3.5yds of 1.5" gravel on my 3000# lowboy Saturday morning and taking it about an hour away so it ought ot get a pretty damn good workout. I figure the load will end up being around 12K GVW on the trailer alone. A little over what the truck is rated for but Ill have the bags, rancho shocks, trailer brake controller and my trailer has brakes on both axles so I shoudl be alright taking it easy. Im interested to see what my trans temps do with the stock cooler, that much weight and 90* weather.

 

The tech support guy I talked to at airlift this evening said that even though the truck is a 3/5 drop in a flipped axxle configuration I need the airbag kit for a 4wd.

I guess I will order that kit and then sell the kit for the trucks slammed 4 to 6 inches and see if the new kit fits dunno. But completely screwed me towing our rock crawler to colorado saturday. Ive had this kit for a month but never put it in bc everything looked perfect. dammit teach me to think

 

If you want to sell them I will buy them..I have the Helwig anti-sway add a leaf (for load control)I could trade as well

 

As soon as I get the new kit installed I'll have the 59209 slamair kit for sale. I'm just using the bags only out of the new kit So it will be a 100% new never installed kit.

 

let me know