What are you guys running or recommend? I have some specific parameters I want to stay within fwiw so here goes:

I'm about to trade my 21 450 for a 26. I'm currently running 295/65/20 tires on fuel 20" forged wheels. Stock height. I trimmed the front mudflaps ironically along the line they were already tearing to make room for the tires to clear while turning and crossing uneven terrain in a turn such as a driveway or business entrance. No issues there to date. I do run airbags as part of my oba system that will be moving to new truck. The stock height look has never bothered me and I like the lack of squat in the event a bag fails on a towing trip. I break a lot of stuff so most of my setups have redundancy built in. For example I have s manual schrader valve at my rear bumper for the air bags. In the event my compressor failed, air tank leaked etc all I have to do is switch over the air line feed to the bumper. I have my bags plumbed together so if one fails the other will fail with it. I never want to be driving with one air bag inflated ever. The 450's don't need them but they make the loaded ride exponentially softer. Anyways I digress.
My primary concern with adding a leveling kit is in the event of a bag failure the truck will really be squatted.
I don't know what all is involved in a leveling kit on the newer trucks. I've watched some youtube videos and done some research on kits. Some are way more involved than others.
So I will ask you guys what you are running? Would you recommend it? Pros cons? If you had to do it all over again would you buy same setup or different?

 

Dont do it.

And add another valve for the bags. Dont T them together to one valve like that.

 

Curious why you wouldn't plumb the bags together?

 

I run an automatic compressor from air lift & mine always have been plumbed together……and they’ve performed just fine. Not a single issue in my experience with them this way.

I’ve towed some decent trailers with it and thrown some decent loads in the bed and I can’t complain as they’ve worked great.

only thing I ever see people mention as a benefit is you can run different psi in each bag I suppose? But in my experience that has not been something I’d imagine myself needing to do.

 

Say the bags are T'd together and @20 psi, when you turn say left and the right side bag takes on weight, it will compress and send the air to the left bag. Simple physics. The higher the PSI, the less noticeable.

On the 26, higher end trim with either on board scale or projecter LED's, you'll need to ext the plastic arms going to the radius arms.

 

haven’t had any side effects of the sort but I’m also not doing hairpin turns with a trailer attached either. And in all my use including several trucks in our fleet that have air, we haven’t noticed that.

now we don’t tow 50,000lbs either. But up to the +/- 20k range it’s been fine.

 

I appreciate that concern. I've never experienced it myself to date. I do think for the guys hauling these massive slide in bed campers it would be very prevalent. Most of my weight is always going to be on whatever trailer I'm towing.
Thanks also for the reminder on the extension arms. I have read about that as well.