etrailer | Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Ultimate Air Helper Springs Installation - 2019 Ram 1500 Classic

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Ryan: Hey everybody, Ryan here at etrailer.com. Today on our 2019 Ram 1500 classic we're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Air Lift LoadLifter 5,000 air spring kit. Before we get started, what we'd like to do is take a few measurements of our Ram with no weight in the bed of the truck and with the factory suspension. That way we can have a good baseline to go off of whenever we do put weight in the bed and after we get our airbags installed. Here at the front, you go from the ground to the edge of our wheel well, it's going to be right about 36 and a half inches. And here at the rear, take that same measurement, it'll be 39 and a half inches.

So now we went ahead and added a considerable amount of weight to the bed of our truck.Now we can take those same measurements to see how it affected our suspension. So here at the front, take that same measurement from the ground, the edge of our wheel well is about 37 and a half inches. And here at the back of the truck you can tell it's really kind of squatting down. From the ground to that wheel aligner it's about 35 and a half inches. So how that weight is affecting our truck back squatting down, which in turn is raising the front of the truck up and that's going to affect a few things.

It's going to put that more or less unnecessary wear and tear on our suspension back here and really just decrease overall life and performance of it. And with the front of the truck being higher, what that's going to do is angle our headlights up, possibly in other motorist's eyes, not on the road where we want them.It's really going to effect our tire wear, now that our tires don't have a full contact pattern on the ground. It's going to decrease the life of those. And not to mention it's going to really affect our steering and braking performance with all that weight back here. Now what we can do is go ahead and run our truck through the test course with all the weight in the back to see how it performs.

So we'll get going here and we're going to first approach our speed bumps. We kind of straighten out and get going over them.And right away, just over these first few bumps you can almost feel that suspension, almost feels like it's going to bottom out. It really feels rough back there. You can even feel it up here in the wheel, each bump wheel's kind of wanting to go from side to side. It's a little tougher to kind of keep straight.You're just kind of ...

feels like you have to fight it a little bit more to point it where you want to go. Keep in mind that's only going a couple miles an hour over these bumps, too. Now we can pick up a little speed and do some evasive maneuvering through our slalom course. So as I go side to side, this is where you can really feel that weight. You can definitely feel it kind of pushing us around, lot more body roll. And in my opinion, this is kind of a more realistic driving situation where you've got to be making a lot more turns like this, and this is that point where it's not going to perform as good as you would like it to. So we'll keep going a little bit, maybe get a little more speed to see how it reacts. And it doesn't get any better, it gets worse. So my opinion, this is an issue that I wouldn't be too happy with whenever I'm pulling a heavy trailer or carrying something really heavy.Now with the airbags installed, we went ahead and put that same amount of weight in the bed of the truck. And we can take those same measurements, that way we can kind of compare the numbers. Here at the front, from the ground of the wheel well will be right about 37 inches. And here at the back, the ground to the edge of the wheel well it's right about 39 inches. So the truck still has just a little bit of a squat. Numbers are just a little off from the factory ride height with no weight. But keep in mind, I only put 60 pounds of air in the bags so what we could do is fill them up a little bit more and find that exact level ride height. So I went ahead and adjusted our air pressure, and now the truck is riding exactly at that factory ride height with no weight.And so what the airbags are going to eliminate is that squatting in the bed, or in the back of our truck rather. Our headlights are no longer pointing up at the sky. We have full tire contact with the ground. And it's really

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