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Great to hear. Didn't see it as really fitting a group buy rule either. Group Buy rules are in place to help keep vendors from being undercut. This support in turn encourages vendors to support this website.... which pays for it to exist. Your thang does not really fit that since their are no vendors/sources yet for NEW ones in the first place. Though you have now created one.
Yeah sorta. Not calling myself a "vendor" as such. I need cab mounts for my own trucks and as such I have to buy 50 sets to get them and not pay the "vendors" a literal arm and leg for "new old stock" that's typically so old it's worthless or expensive urethane replacements that don't offer the ride quality I'm looking for on my A1R without air ride. I can't get what I want in the market so I'm having them made and sharing my excess. For the forum members I will be doing this for ZERO profit.
The A1R trucks don't have an air ride/suspended cab. No airbags, just a ridgid 3-point mounts. The rear latch rides on a set of rubber bushings (that are the same as the front cab bushings but uses one extra lower puck).
Any idea why the newer generation trucks don’t have cab air suspension? And, do you know if a A1 could be converted from air to bushings - if the need presented?
The A1R was built specifically to be field upgraded to an armored cab. It was a late running production change ordered due to the media frenzy in 2006 over troops not having body armor and armored vehicles..... Air ride was just added expense, and probably couldn't handle the weight of the A1P2 cab without a redesign. The A1R also has huge coil over shocks in addition to the normal leaf springs to handle the weight. I think the original A1P2 design kept the air over hydraulic pump, single hydraulic ram, and the cab mounts of the A1R. This was found to be woefully inadequate for the additional weight and was further redesigned into the current models that have an electric over hydraulic pump, dual lift rams, and twin cab latches mounted on hydraulic leveling rams.
