Trucking , How to change a suspension air bag on a 2007 Freightliner Columbia .
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- In this video I show a complete walk through of how to replace a blown suspension airbag , and replace it with a new one .
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Very Helpful I am making Plans to Return to Work after a 4 year battle with Cancer.I still have My 2003 Columbia and These Videos show how simple it is to do the work with the Proper tools.Thank You
hate to hear about the health issues , but i am happy you were able to keep your truck ! i put theses videos out all the time , so keep your eyes peeled .
What a nice calm guy and what a great video... 😊 thank you so much
I like how you treated that fitting. Excellent tips
Thank you !!!!!
Thank you for the homemade knowledge I appreciate it, Robert from Florida👌
Nice work. Thanks. Pete. Australia
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Your welcome !! Thanks for watching !!
Good Video well explained God Bless you
Great video Starkey trucking I am a new subcriber learning a lot planning to be a CDL holder soon and become a diesel technician already have 9 years of experience my dad taught me what I know so far this video was helpful in my quest to be a diesel technician thanks and God bless and blessed 2020
Isaac Charles that’s great ! Make sure you catch my other videos too !
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You definitely did help me to save some money👍 great video! Thank you👍
Thanks!! And I am glad I could help !!
It's best to use liquid teflon. Tape strands can come off and enter your air system as well.
Tim Flagstad I agree , but if you don’t have it on hand , then you have to fall back on basic equipment.
Great video sir
Thanks so much
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Good job fellow trucker.👍
Jim Madrid Thank you !!
Thanks for the help useful video
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AWESOME....
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AtlasRunner G your welcome
It's a lot easier to use the air suspension to replace the Jack's. Just cap the air line.
I agree but , if someone does not do it right and it falls apart while they are under the truck and gets crushed . So I can not tell people to do that .
GReat video thanks
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Thanks man god bless
Your very welcome ! Thanks for watching !!
Tighten the top of bag first could get a slight twist in bag going the other way.
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You can preventable rebuild the air albow fitting with new o ring inside where you push it in.
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Don't need jacks just cap air line you removed. Start truck, pump up other air bags remove and replace.
Flat vicegrip the end of the line.
@@allywilkeforsenate Better yet, fold the line back on itself and tape it to keep it folded. Using any type of clamping on the end is likely to create damage or change the shape (like a crease). Either can create an air leak because the o-ring in the fitting will not seat well.
Better yet do not try clamping. Remember these lines are plastic and can reduce integrity of line of just Crack.
Best thing is to put a screw in the end of line to cap off
I do exactly the same way you do.
Good deal !
Doing it the hard way
I like doing things the hard way , that way people that do not own all the tools to do it the easy way , can still learn !!!
I changed an airbag a couple months ago , this morning I saw the plate or part at the bottom of airbag was missing, any idea why, may be the nut at the bottom became off and that caused it
If you over stretch the airbag then you can rip the bolt apart , but if the bottom of the airbag was missing all your air would be gone .
If your meaning the platform the airbag is bolted to then that could have rotted or broken off . This I have seen happen.
I had a person ask me why my airbags air up higher then normal, there is a good reason why . I adjusted them to be a little higher due to hauling heavy permit loads , but in this video they look a lot higher due to I am not on flat ground .
Before I adjusted the air bags back in 2008 the truck looked like it was sagging in the rear when I hauled heavy coils , so I simply adjusted them up . And no I have had no problems from this though the years , and I drive cross country to about any state. Every truck I have seen can be adjusted.
Adjusting height is OK, but you are also changing the axle pinion angle - unless you compensate by making an angle adjustment. An incorrect angle will create noise, the worse the angle the more the noise, and will wear your u-joints much faster.
@@bobblack3870 I have 1million , 356 thousand mile on the truck now . Been this way since I adjusted it in 2008 . No problems , no noise, I change the oil yearly with mobil synthetic gear oil .
Larold, Delta, Ohio
Thanks so much for the video, I knew we could do this fix, It was a great help to
watch before we started the project.
Your very welcome !
I noticed on the door of the truck it said Thurman, OH. I only live about an hour from there, outside of Pomeroy
Nice , I go through your area then
Hey fella, when I try to lose the bottom bolt on my air bag, the rubber bag and bolt turns. Any ideals to remove the bad air bag? Thanks...
my favorite tool is a grinder using a grinding disk or cutoff wheel. I use this in many of my videos . you can pick up a cheap grinder at a harbor freight store for $15 , and the disks are $2 each. its a really good price. i have had my grinder for over 20 years now $12 at the time for it. this will cut that bolt off quick ! and no hassle !
@@Starkeyfamilyfixing figured I would have to grind it off. Thank you...
@@fritzduval Your welcome
Today I tried taking off the bottom bolt off my new bag to adjust and somehow took off the whole bolt . Screw -nut and that lil flat donut... Is that bad? I used a impact and just put it back in...
@@westsidetrucker1449 I had to cut mine off with a angle grinder. The air bag was bad anyways... bolt the new one, good 2 go!
Push your air line in farther ,look at the black paint on the airline
All fittings are not built the same
Suggestion: use mentioned that you used WD-40. That is a poor product to deal with rust. Best practice is to use a product labeled "penetrant". It works better and faster with the primary purpose of counteracting corrosion. WD-40 does not do that. Apply it as early as you can in your process to allow it to do as much work as possible.
It is what I had on hand . But I do use it and on Blaster often
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Why is right one crooked?
Mito Manija it only appears that way. The bags need a few days of stretching to break in . So sometimes they can look off when they are new .
Man you probably installed wrong airbag. It is strangely un-parallel.
I would reccomend you to use
ordinary wrench or better torqe wrench
especially on upper bead plate. On upper side is usually 30-40Nm (Torqes are on sticker)
When installing you can use
external air supply
just enough to lift it
Everything is fine lol 😂, dealership airbag .
Next time you can measure distance from center of screw pin on New and old just to be sure.
It sits strange on video. For lifetime and performance is optimal that center of upper plate and center of piston are aligned.
@@bvogri it sure looked weird!
@@bvogri I switched any store bags and they all lean lol...
Nah it's the plate between his springs an ubolts that's wore out an that's what is causing the lean on the passenger side airbag.
Jack stand? Huh
Air plug or cap and life is easy
when i do videos i have to keep in mine most people do not have proper tools , and seeing a good set of 2 jack stands are $300 or more for a safe weight support , I know most people do not buy them . If you notice in most of my videos I use common tools that most would own , on special jobs i break out my good stuff . It would be unfair to race , using a race car with somebody that can only afford an economy car .
why do you have an airbag crooked on your truck?It is not right
Well I had a lot of comments on this , so I will explain. One guy said that one of the shim plates was wore out on my spring . While that is a common problem on Freightliner truck , this not not my problem. I was doing this job in my driveway and my driveway is uneven, so it appears to have an issue. Next it’s a new airbag, so these can take a few days to stretch out if it’s been sitting on a shelf at the store a long time . My truck is fine , it’s a 2007 model and I bought it in 2008 so it’s fine .
I had the same situation.
@@countryboyllccountryboyllc3507 if it’s like this on flat ground , and your airbags are not new then it’s the shim plate on the suspension near that air bag most of the time . Sometimes it’s the suspension itself which will cost you a small fortune to replace, At no real advantage. As long as everything is tight and your alignment your fine , don’t worry about it .
yes yes you are right
That’s a lot of work changing a air when u don’t really know what u are doing
That’s why I made the video , so you can watch and pause the video , step by step .