I added a set of air suspension bags to the rear of our daily driver (1/2 ton Chebby 4x4). Pulls like a dream now, and truck stays level also.
When I bought ours, I paid $350 for a basic pair of Firestone bags, which was the best deal I could find at the time. Now there are copycats on Amazon, and likely most other places. I have bought some of those copycats (for other projects) also and mine are at least as good of quality as the Firestone.
Got the generic brand (a set of 4 bags with mounting hardware, nothing else) for under $160. Now the same Vixen bags are a little over $200, but again, that's for 4 bags. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=vixen+air+bags&ref=nb_sb_noss_1 Something they have now that they didn't have then was a dual-compressor system meant to adjust and monitor 4 wheels. Spendy, but if you tow a lot I believe it'd be well worth it.
I went the cheap route back then and had the bags manual-fill from near the trailer hitch. That's a mistake I want to correct. I have it so each bag can be filled to a different pressure to adjust the pull. That might be a benefit sometimes but not for us so far. With our summer skeeters and the winter cold, would have been much nicer to have the air valves inside the cab, along with an air gauge for each bag. If the PSI ever drops below 5 PSI, the bags could get damaged....and there's a leak in my system (I think in the bags). If you pull a trailer a lot (I don't anymore), I'd recommend getting the higher-dollar system with build-in air compressor, dual air gauges, etc. MUCH less headaches. But yes, those suspension bags really work!
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