bilstein 5100's and now adding heavy load to bed issue??

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my question I had for bistein was now that I have new shocks installed and set to 2.1 (which is really nice and makes the truck level to the naked eye and rides great) when I put a heavy load in the bed the back end is going to sag which is fine but that intern is going to pull the front nose even higher, that's where my question hits will that cause problems. bilsteins answer was no it should not cause any issue it will raise alittle more in the front but its just your truck body. they also said if I wanted to add air bags underneath my rear springs that would help reduce the sag with heavy loads hmm. any thoughts??
 
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yea that might be the way to go just don't know to much about the airbag system
 

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How much weight are you talking and how often? Bags will surely help if it's going to be a regular thing.

Here's my truck last year with a stock suspension and a load of river rock. Probably shouldn't have done that....

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Air bags all the way, if you can afford it get the rear bielsteins as well!

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Airbags. $90 delivered. Can't go wrong.
 
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Thanks for the replies everyone. I haul firewood around 10 times a year and at times it will way the bed down a lot maybe not as much as sharp charges picture but pretty close . Now that I put bilstein level shocks up front I feel like when I put a heavy load in the bed the nose is going to be point to the sky. Not sure if that's bad? Are the air bags hard to install I was kind of hoping for a easy fix ? But having coil springs in rear we are limited
 

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I have airbags solved all my squashing problems
 

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The Airlift bags are a breeze to install once you get the rear wheels off. The instructions are very good. Install takes less than 2 hours start to finish. Totally worth the time and $.

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Thanks for the info iam goin to try air bags
 
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