Lippert SolidStep Lift Assist Kit Installation - 2016 Forest River Salem Hemisphere Lite Travel Trai

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Hey guys, Shane here with etrailer.com. Today I have a 2016 Forest River Salem Hemisphere Lite Travel Trailer. And I want to walk you through how to install the Lippert Components SolidStep Lift Assist.Now, if you're not familiar with the SolidStep, I'm going to highly recommend these. When you compare them to like your old ones that you have to fold out from underneath the vehicle or underneath the camper, the metal ones, they tend to rust. They don't really hold up as well. These make it very easy.

They simply fold up inside the door and stay inside when you're not using them.Keep in mind. You do have to use a little bit of effort to get them up. They are all aluminum and they are lightweight, but you do have to lift them. Adding a lift assist with a solid step assembly is going to make it to where you are using very little effort, if no effort at all, to get your steps up because the weight of the steps is being supported by the shock assembly mounted on the inside of the trailer. So if you watch, I'm going to lift this with one finger and it's going to lift itself.

Maybe you're older or maybe you have a hard time lifting anything, you can see there, there is not really any lifting that we have to do. The shock itself is going to support the weight of the steps. Once we get up so high, where all you have to do is push it in lock inside the door.When we open it, again, the shock is going to support it. One finger. We can fold our steps out.

Very easy, very simple to not only fold your steps up in the stowed position, but to open your camper up when you're ready to use them. Even if I grab it up here at this top step, I can still lift it with one finger.This is what our assembly is going to look like on the inside. See, it has a nice cover that covers our strut. If we fold it up you can see how our strut is mounted in there. When we fold our step up, the strut is going to fully extend.

This bracket is going to sit down here on the floor. It's going to have a plate that comes back here that assists in lifting.As far as the installation, it's pretty simple and straightforward. It's going to come with all the necessary hardware and components to get it installed. It's going to come with the bracket that mounts on the inside of the wall. It's going to come with two different struts, one for three steps and one for four steps, depending on your setup. It's also going to come with a sill plate. It's going to have to replace your existing sill plate on your steps in order for it to work with the lift assist.Now that we've gone over some of the features, I'll show you how to get it installed. To start your installation, if you have solid steps already installed, you need to remove them. If you had purchased solid steps to install the solid steps with the lift assist the installation process for removing everything off of them is going to be the same. You'll need a 3/16th hex key and a half inch socket. We're going to remove this threshold. We're going to have three bolts here. And three bolts here. For one of them on each side, you're going to need a half inch wrench because it's up behind this lip here.You're going to take the new one that comes in your kit. We're going to line it up and your kit is going to come with new hardware to get it installed. And then it should line up with the same holes or your maybe other hardware. Next, we need to remove our transport lock. On the inside of the step, you're going to have a plate that runs down to it. You're going to have four bolts on each side. We're going to use a 3/8ths socket for the nut side and an eighth inch X key for the inside. Now I'll remove our old one and install our new one. We're going to slide it into place.You'll notice these triangular pieces here. If you install it this way and it hits your step, this next step down, you can take it, you can flip it over, install it this way. We're going to line it up with the holes and then install our hardware. Once you have your new lock, tighten it back into place and take your steps. And we're going to set them in place off the left-hand doorframe, you're gonna measure 2 and 5/8ths to this edge.Next, we're going to take a seven 30 seconds drill bit. We're going have two access holes here on the to

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